Christian Imperialism

Conroy-Krutz, Emily

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“…88 Bishop's comments on native Protestant churches were part of a broader missionary debate over "the connection between culture and Christianity," which he glossed in evolutionary terms in the language of heredity. 89 The sermon on Home Missions also demonstrated how, in Bishop's mind, the Great Revival had established Hawai'i's special destiny. Those "Pentecostal displays of the Divine presence" confirmed that the islands were "holy ground, where the Divine presence and power have been manifested as rarely elsewhere on earth."…”

Section: Religious Revival and Romantic Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

“This Greater Issue of Light against Darkness”: Sereno Edwards Bishop, Missionary Religion, and the Hawaiian Islands, 1827–1909

Ratnapalan¹

2019

Journal of Religious History

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The history of nineteenth‐century missions provide a fruitful field to explore the development of religious thought and practice in a secular setting. This article shows how the religious views of the clergyman and educator Sereno Edwards Bishop, born in Hawai‘i of American missionary parents, were shaped by his childhood among the mission community in Hawai‘i and by his American college education. These instilled in him a liberal approach to theology that was informed by a spiritually alert sense of Hawaiian geography and environment. Contrary to the notion that he cast his faith aside in addressing matters of wider social and political importance, Bishop emerges as someone who thought critically about mid‐nineteenth‐century Protestant Christianity, grounding his perspective on politics, society, and natural history in Hawai‘i according to his religious principles. Given Bishop’s specific intellectual and cultural heritage, it is difficult to subsume his perspective within broader narratives of American expansion; rather, both Pacific and mainland American elements shaped the thought of such mission‐descended figures.

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Section: Religious Revival and Romantic Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

“This Greater Issue of Light against Darkness”: Sereno Edwards Bishop, Missionary Religion, and the Hawaiian Islands, 1827–1909

Ratnapalan¹

2019

Journal of Religious History

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“…Social status and level of education were important indicators and, according to Mizutani, "only those whites with sufficient degrees of attainment in these terms were deemed able to command the respect and awe of colonized subjects." 73 Further, multiple English-speaking communities, including mixed-race populations, lived in India in an expansive multilingual environment. 74 Not all of the 7534 "Europeans" were directly from Europe or England, and a larger number than that were English-speakers.…”

Section: The Pull Of Indiamentioning

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“…72 As the waving American flag, the presence of Mrs. Hume on the veranda, and the conspicuous three cheers to Bombay and Boston suggest, the missionaries of the ABCFM were upholding national and cultural markers that identified them as Americans. 73 As the visit of Child and the presence of Mrs. Hume indicates, women were a prominent part of this gendered exhibition of Protestant America in the mission field. The first American women to join the Protestant missionary movement in South Asia had accompanied their husbands.…”

Section: The Meaning Of American Aid In British Indiamentioning

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“…Workers among Boys was held in oxford with 75 international delegates in attendance. 73 one of its resolutions underscored that it was "essential for the YMCA work to begin when the life of the growing man can be most surely influenced; that is, during boyhood and adolescence" and accordingly stipulated that "the World's Committee should give an adequate place to Junior Work and develop means by which its interest may be best served". 74 However, these ambitious plans were scuppered by the outbreak of the Great War and the subsequent reallocation of Y funds for 'army work'.…”

Section: The Development Of Boys' Work In the Indian Ymcamentioning

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The United States And South Asia From The Age Of Empire To Decolonization. A History of Entanglements

2022

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The contributions assembled in this volume present cutting-edge research that examines the network of Indo-American interconnections over a wider time frame. The case studies stretch into the American republic’s early decades, hinting at a longer history of mutual influence and exchange, beyond the registers of the American century’ of globalization. By bringing together academics working across disciplines ranging from history to cultural and literary studies, comparative religion, political science and sociology, this volume thus foregrounds and historicizes the complex, multi-sited, polyvalent nature of the Indo-US encounter. At the same time, the book explores the possibilities of methodologically engaging with established categories—such as the nation, the imperial and Empire—and test alternative typologies to understand this encounter better. Taken together, our authors reconstruct the myriad ways in which Americans and Indians have engaged with each other through trade, diplomacy, intellectual comradeship, missionary evangelism and revolutionary fervor.

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“…The missionaries had a vision of Christian imperialism and expected that the American empire would be a moral one that would help to spread 'civilization', along with Christianity. 71 For Caldwell, the lingering issue of man-eating tigers offered him an opportunity to hunt them to 'advance the knowledge of the Christian God in the heart of Asia'. 72 Caldwell's tiger hunting began in , when he shot a tiger that had taken the life of a -year-old boy.…”

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Manly Civilization in China: Harry R. Caldwell, the ‘Blue Tiger’, and the American Museum of Natural History

Chan¹

2019

Mod. Asian Stud.

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This article examines the transplantation of America's ‘manly’ civilization to 1920s Fujian, China, through the experiences of Harry R. Caldwell (1876–1970), a Methodist missionary whose hunting was central to his social evangelism. With his rifle, Caldwell protected Chinese villagers from man-eating tigers, taught them how to hunt tigers effectively, and enabled them to reconceptualize their relationships with tigers and nature. By engaging the American Museum of Natural History in his specimen collection and hunt for the mythical ‘Blue Tiger’, Caldwell introduced an economy of natural expeditions to the villagers who were hired to support the hunt. This article argues that Caldwell's experiences as both a missionary and a hunter in Fujian was an extension, or negotiation, of his rugged masculinity, which was fostered in his Tennessee home town. He identified as both a Christian and a hunter, and he did not see these parts of himself as distinct. A comparison between Caldwell and his contemporary, the British naturalist Arthur de Carle Sowerby (1885–1954), accentuates America's rugged masculinity by suggesting different national approaches to hunting and the growing professionalization of the naturalist.

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Christian Imperialism

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“This Greater Issue of Light against Darkness”: Sereno Edwards Bishop, Missionary Religion, and the Hawaiian Islands, 1827–1909

“This Greater Issue of Light against Darkness”: Sereno Edwards Bishop, Missionary Religion, and the Hawaiian Islands, 1827–1909

The United States And South Asia From The Age Of Empire To Decolonization. A History of Entanglements

Manly Civilization in China: Harry R. Caldwell, the ‘Blue Tiger’, and the American Museum of Natural History

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