Christine Weir
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673452 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Weir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Weir |
| SIGNATURE | WEIR C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the South Pacific |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Rev. John Burton frames the Fiji Methodist Mission, 1924
In his role as General Secretary of the Australasian Methodist Missionary Society in the 1920s and 1930s, Reverend John W. Burton travelled each winter to one of the ‘mission fields’ in the South Pacific to inspect the mission’s activities, and to encourage and advise. Accompanying him was his camera; Burton had long been an enthusiastic photographer. Following his 1924 visit to Fiji he created two albums of his photographs, one illustrating the …
The Opening of the Coconut Curtain
This paper investigates the influence of Pacific Church leaders within the wider forum of the World Council of Churches (WCC) and their promotion of Pacific concerns – primarily the campaign for a nuclear free Pacific and other ecological concerns. The 1975 WCC Assembly held in Nairobi marked the move of the WCC from a predominantly North Atlantic body to a fully global one, with an emphasis on African issues and with Pacific church leaders elect…
Creating Religious Childhoods in Anglo-World and British Colonial Contexts, 1800-1950
Island Queens and Mission Wives
The 2014 Fiji Elections and the Methodist Church
The Methodist Church of Fiji has around one-third of Fiji's population as members, and is a strong influence on all aspects of Fiji's life, including its politics. Since 2006 the relationship between the Methodist Church of Fiji and the Bainimarama regime has been variously tense, acrimonious and downright hostile, with Church conferences cancelled by the government in 2009–2011 after the Methodist Church was accused of 'playing politics'. A furt…
‘We visit the colo towns … when it is safe to go’
The Methodist mission in Fiji was from its inception maritime in nature and was slow to move into the interior of the largest island, Viti Levu. In the 1870s, only two European missionaries ministered to most of Viti Levu, leaving the greater part of evangelism and teaching in the hands of Fijian native ministers (talatala itaukei) and particularly teachers (vakavuvuli). Using evidence from mission and secular travellers in the eastern highland a…
Oceania and the Victorian Imagination
Deeply Interested in These Children Whom You Have Not Seen’
For Australian and New Zealand children in the early decades of the 20th century, much of their learning about the Pacific Islands came through missionary material, often aimed directly at them. This paper examines the representation of Pacific peoples and societies in a number of monthly journals, sections within adult journals, books and plays designed to enthuse Sunday school children and educate them about missionary activity. Early attempts …
‘White Man’s Burden’, ‘White Man’s Privilege’
Contesting The 'Civilising Mission
John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff. Of revelation and revolution: the dialectics of modernity on a South African frontier. Vol 2. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1997. xxiii, 588pp., maps, plates, notes, bibliography, index. US$70.00 (cloth) ISBN 0-226-11443-0; US$24.95 (paper) ISBN 0-226-11444-9
Fiji and the Fijians
Fiji and the Fijians
The 2014 Fiji Elections and the Methodist Church
The Methodist Church of Fiji has around one-third of Fiji's population as members, and is a strong influence on all aspects of Fiji's life, including its politics. Since 2006 the relationship between the Methodist Church of Fiji and the Bainimarama regime has been variously tense, acrimonious and downright hostile, with Church conferences cancelled by the government in 2009–2011 after the Methodist Church was accused of 'playing politics'. A furt…
Fiji and the Fijians
Contesting The 'Civilising Mission
John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff. Of revelation and revolution: the dialectics of modernity on a South African frontier. Vol 2. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1997. xxiii, 588pp., maps, plates, notes, bibliography, index. US$70.00 (cloth) ISBN 0-226-11443-0; US$24.95 (paper) ISBN 0-226-11444-9
‘White Man’s Burden’, ‘White Man’s Privilege’
Deeply Interested in These Children Whom You Have Not Seen’
For Australian and New Zealand children in the early decades of the 20th century, much of their learning about the Pacific Islands came through missionary material, often aimed directly at them. This paper examines the representation of Pacific peoples and societies in a number of monthly journals, sections within adult journals, books and plays designed to enthuse Sunday school children and educate them about missionary activity. Early attempts …
‘We visit the colo towns … when it is safe to go’
The Methodist mission in Fiji was from its inception maritime in nature and was slow to move into the interior of the largest island, Viti Levu. In the 1870s, only two European missionaries ministered to most of Viti Levu, leaving the greater part of evangelism and teaching in the hands of Fijian native ministers (talatala itaukei) and particularly teachers (vakavuvuli). Using evidence from mission and secular travellers in the eastern highland a…
Oceania and the Victorian Imagination
The 2014 Fiji Elections and the Methodist Church
The Methodist Church of Fiji has around one-third of Fiji's population as members, and is a strong influence on all aspects of Fiji's life, including its politics. Since 2006 the relationship between the Methodist Church of Fiji and the Bainimarama regime has been variously tense, acrimonious and downright hostile, with Church conferences cancelled by the government in 2009–2011 after the Methodist Church was accused of 'playing politics'. A furt…
Island Queens and Mission Wives
Creating Religious Childhoods in Anglo-World and British Colonial Contexts, 1800-1950
The Opening of the Coconut Curtain
This paper investigates the influence of Pacific Church leaders within the wider forum of the World Council of Churches (WCC) and their promotion of Pacific concerns – primarily the campaign for a nuclear free Pacific and other ecological concerns. The 1975 WCC Assembly held in Nairobi marked the move of the WCC from a predominantly North Atlantic body to a fully global one, with an emphasis on African issues and with Pacific church leaders elect…
Rev. John Burton frames the Fiji Methodist Mission, 1924
In his role as General Secretary of the Australasian Methodist Missionary Society in the 1920s and 1930s, Reverend John W. Burton travelled each winter to one of the ‘mission fields’ in the South Pacific to inspect the mission’s activities, and to encourage and advise. Accompanying him was his camera; Burton had long been an enthusiastic photographer. Following his 1924 visit to Fiji he created two albums of his photographs, one illustrating the …
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