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1 online resource (xii, 519 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Paradoxes of domesticity missionary encounters in the making of Christian homes in Asia and the Pacific / Hyaeweol Choi, Margaret Jolly -- Part One. Permeability and Paradox : Revisiting Domestic and Public in Asia and the Pacific -- The missionary home as a pulpit domestic paradoxes in early twentieth-century Korea / Hyaeweol Choi -- Missionaries and "a better baby movement" in colonial Korea / Sonja M. Kim -- All other loves excelling : Mary Kidder, Wakamatsu Shizuko and modern marriage in Meiji Japan / Rebecca Copeland -- Raising the standards of family life : Ginling Women's College and Christian social service in republican China / Helen M. Schneider -- Part Two. Sacred and Secular Genealogies : Christian Missions and States : Colonial and Contemporary -- Sacred genealogies of development Christianity and the Indian modern / Kalpana Ram -- Ol meri bilong wok (hard-working women) : women, work and domesticity in Papua New Guinea / Jemima Mowbray -- Tired for nothing : women, chiefs, and the domestication of customary authority in Solomon Islands / Debra McDougall -- Part Three. The Architectonics of Home and Emotion : New Christian Families in Conversion Experiences -- Agency and salvation in Christian child rescue in colonial India Preena and Amy Carmichael / Annie McCarthy -- Deviant domesticities and sexualised childhoods prostitutes, eunuchs and the limits of the state child "rescue" mission in colonial India / Jessica Hinchy -- A new family domesticity and sentiment among Chinese and western women at shanghai's door of hope / Sue Gronewold -- From open fale to mission houses negotiating the boundaries of "domesticity" in Samoa / Latu Latai -- Paradoxical intimacies the Christian creation of the Huli domestic sphere / Holly Wardlow -- Part Four. On and Beneath the Skin : Embodiment and Sensuous Agency --13. Paradoxical Performances : Cruel Constraints and Christian Emancipation in 19-20th-Century Missionary Representations of Chinese Women and Girls / Shih-Wen Sue Chen -- Bibles, baseball and butterfly sleeves : Filipina women and American Protestant missions, 1900-1930 / Laura R. Prieto -- The materiality of missionisation in Collingwood Bay, Papua New Guinea / Anna-Karina Hermkens -- A saturated history of Christianity and cloth in Oceania / Margaret Jolly. |
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Divine Domesticities: Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific fills a huge lacuna in the scholarly literature on missionaries in Asia/Pacific and is transnational history at its finest. |
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English. |
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Indigenous women -- Asia.
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Indigenous women -- Pacific Area.
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Missions -- Asia.
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Missions -- Pacific Area.
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Indigenous women.
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Social Sciences.
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Social & Cultural Anthropology.
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Anthropology.
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Femmes autochtones -- Asie.
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Femmes autochtones -- Pacifique, Région du.
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Femmes autochtones.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Indigenous women
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Missions
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Asia https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxMpyjKQ9Jtm3jkjPBgKd
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Pacific Area
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transnational history |
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imperialism |
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colonialism |
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asia pacific |
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gender history |
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Missionary |
| Added Author |
Jolly, Margaret, 1949- author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Divine domesticities : Christian paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific. Canberra, Australia : Australian National University Press, ©2014 519 pages 9781925021943 |
| ISBN |
9781925021950 (PDF) |
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1925021955 (PDF) |
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9781925021943 |
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1925021947 |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000053140268 |
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AU@ 000058200959 |
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DEBBG BV044058397 |
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GBVCP 869965360 |
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AU@ 000060585194 |
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GBVCP 100866202X |
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