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Selections From the Autobiography of the Rev. William Gill, Being Chiefly A Record of His Life as A

Author : William Wyatt Gill

Publisher : Legare Street Press

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 10,1 MB

Release : 2023-07-18

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ISBN : 9781020925870

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This book offers a rare glimpse into the life and work of the Rev. William Gill, a pioneering missionary and scholar who worked in the Pacific Islands in the late 19th century. With its vivid descriptions and first-hand accounts, this book provides a valuable window into a fascinating period of history. It is a must-read for anyone interested in Pacific Island culture, Christianity, or the history of colonialism. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.





Selections From the Autobiography of the Rev. William Gill (Author of "Gems From the Coral Islands")

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Publisher : Forgotten Books

Page : 326 pages

File Size : 50,89 MB

Release : 2017-10-11

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9780265159774

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Excerpt from Selections From the Autobiography of the Rev. William Gill (Author of "Gems From the Coral Islands"): Being Chiefly a Record of His Life as a Missionary in the South Sea Islands Some Unitarian strife among the ministers of the town, and especially in connection with this place, has always marred my otherwise pleasant memories. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.





Cannibals and Converts

Author : Maretu

Publisher : [email protected]

Page : 240 pages

File Size : 15,20 MB

Release : 1983

Category : Cannibalism

ISBN : 9789820201668

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Story of the Cook Islands immediately before the coming of Europeans written by a Rarotongan missionary.





Samoan Medical Belief and Practice

Author : Cluny Macpherson

Publisher : Auckland University Press

Page : 284 pages

File Size : 28,60 MB

Release : 1990

Category : Medical

ISBN : 9781869400453

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"This is the first comprehensive study of Samoan music. Cluny and La'avasa Macpherson have carried out intensive investigation into the practice and beliefs of contemporary indigenous healers, or fofố, in Western Samoa to produce a fascinating and throughful study. They explain convincingly why traditional Samoan medicine and its skilled practitioners continue to flourish alongside Western medical practice both in Samoa and in Samoan immigrant communities..."--Back cover.



Mixed Messages: Materiality, Textuality, Missions

Author : J. Scott

Publisher : Springer

Page : 273 pages

File Size : 20,26 MB

Release : 2005-05-05

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1403982325

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This collection of essays looks at missions, their complicity in European colonialism, and their postcolonial aftermath. It examines the spread of Christianity, ranging over the anthropological, textual, historical, and geographical dimensions of mission enterprises, with topics as diverse as the influence of mission printing and record-keeping on traditional life in Africa to the role of missions in changing styles of dress in India. Also, uniquely, the collection includes essays analyzing the role of proselytizing in Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, as well as American liberal democratic capitalism. The volume is interdisciplinary, focusing on textual and material aspects of missions. Like Griffiths' earlier ground-breaking books in postcolonial studies, and Scott's well-known interdisciplinary work on missions and postcolonial literatures, this collection will be fascinating to scholars in postcolonial/cultural and mission studies and be useful as a teaching tool as well. Mixed Messages was listed among the 15 best books for 2005 in the Jan 2006 issue of The International Bulletin of Mission Studies .



Christian Missions and the Enlightenment

Author : Brian Stanley

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 259 pages

File Size : 16,91 MB

Release : 2014-05-22

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1136865543

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Addresses the nature of the influence of the European Enlightenment on the beliefs and practice of the Protestant missionaries who went to Asia and Africa from the mid-eighteenth century onwards, particularly British missions and the formative role of the Scottish Enlightenment on their thinking.