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A Mission Divided : Race, Culture and Colonialism in Fiji's Methodist Mission.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: State, Society and Governance in Melanesia SeriesPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (250 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781925022865
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Mission DividedDDC classification:
  • 266.7
LOC classification:
  • BV2550 .C567 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- List of Figures -- Units of Currency -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Foundations for an Indo-Fijian Methodist Church in Fiji -- A National Church Built in 'Primitive' Culture: Communalism, Chiefs and Coins -- Theories of Culture: Responding to Emergent Nationalisms -- Indigenous Agrarian Commerce: Yeoman Claims to Soil -- Leadership with Limitations: Constrained Leadership for Indo‑Fijian and Fijian Methodists in the 1930s -- Colonialism and Culture Throughout the Pacific War -- Defining the Path to Independence -- Devolution in a Divided Mission -- Dis-unity: Failed Efforts at Integration -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography.
Summary: This book examines the long process of decolonisation within the Methodist Overseas Missions of Australasia, a colonial institution that operated in the British colony of Fiji. The mission was a site of work for Europeans, Fijians and Indo-Fijians, but each community operated separately, as the mission was divided along ethnic lines in 1901.
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Intro -- List of Figures -- Units of Currency -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Foundations for an Indo-Fijian Methodist Church in Fiji -- A National Church Built in 'Primitive' Culture: Communalism, Chiefs and Coins -- Theories of Culture: Responding to Emergent Nationalisms -- Indigenous Agrarian Commerce: Yeoman Claims to Soil -- Leadership with Limitations: Constrained Leadership for Indo‑Fijian and Fijian Methodists in the 1930s -- Colonialism and Culture Throughout the Pacific War -- Defining the Path to Independence -- Devolution in a Divided Mission -- Dis-unity: Failed Efforts at Integration -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography.

This book examines the long process of decolonisation within the Methodist Overseas Missions of Australasia, a colonial institution that operated in the British colony of Fiji. The mission was a site of work for Europeans, Fijians and Indo-Fijians, but each community operated separately, as the mission was divided along ethnic lines in 1901.

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