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” : 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
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
Language
English
Format
ebook
Publisher
Australia National University Press
Release
October 01, 2014
ISBN 13
9781925021950
Divine Domesticities: Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific
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” : 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
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