Divine domesticities : Christian paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific / Hyaeweol Choi and Margaret Jolly.

Divine domesticities : Christian paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific /

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Choi, Hyaeweol (Author), Jolly, Margaret, 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Anu, Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press, 2014.
Series:Open Access e-Books
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Subjects:
Indigenous women > Asia.
Indigenous women > Pacific Area.
Missions > Asia.
Missions > Pacific Area.
Indigenous women.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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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