Kate Tilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4586028 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kate Tilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kate |
| FAMILY NAME | Tilson |
| SIGNATURE | TILSON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8800-1945 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Assembling Home in the Mission Field: Evangelical Periodical Culture in Britain and Tahiti, ca. 1790s–1830s
This article explores the complex cultural processes that engineered the production and circulation of British evangelical periodicals in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It draws on a vast collection of missionary archival material from Tahiti to show the patched-together character of evangelical periodicals, constituted by highly mobile texts that connected readers across vast geographic distances. Furthermore, it illustrates…
Entanglement” as a concept in recent research on Christian missions in the South Pacific and Africa
This article provides a short overview of ‘entanglement’ in recent histories of mission, examining what distinguishes it from earlier conceptualisations of cross‐cultural encounters. This article locates the emergence of the term in the social sciences and global histories of empire, and explores its current influence in studies of Christian evangelism in imperial and colonial contexts. This article shows the strengths of recent works on entangle…
Religion, Disease and Cultural Difference on the Voyage from Britain to the South Pacific in the Early Nineteenth Century
Focusing on the outbreak of disease on the Royal Admiral, this article explores how oceanic voyaging shaped the evangelisation of the South Pacific in the early nineteenth century. Incorporating a microhistorical approach, it argues that missionary experiences on board were embedded in the theological impetus of evangelical overseas expansion; they helped consolidate missionary understandings of cultural difference; and they simultaneously put a …
Sexual Health, Morality and the Missionary Press in Britain and the South Pacific, 1795–1850
This article explores the London Missionary Society’s textual production on the South Pacific in the first half of the nineteenth century and argues that sexuality was connected to moral and physical understandings of health in missionary texts. This was due to the nature of missionary and indigenous entanglements in the South Pacific and the era’s burgeoning medical print network. The discussion builds on current debates on mission and the cultu…
Childbirth and Emerging Missionary Information Networks in Britain and the South Pacific
This article explores how childbirth shaped the information networks that London Missionary Society missionaries helped develop between Britain and the South Pacific from the late eighteenth century. As Evangelical missionaries experienced challenging births in the South Pacific, they sought new forms of cultural knowledge, which they recorded in their reports to the society. Part of these knowledge networks included books on medicine and midwife…
Medicine as a Lens to Examine Cross-Cultural Encounters: A Study of Medical Missionary Samuel Hayward Ford’s Writings in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand
Medical missionary Samuel Hayward Ford arrived in New Zealand’s Bay of Islands in the late 1830s, a few years before the formal colonisation of the country. His letters and medical reports to the Committee of the Church Missionary Society revealed the complicated and malleable nature of medicine in the cross-cultural encounter. Through close study of Ford’s writings, this article argues that medicine worked to transform and interweave Māori and m…
Religion, Disease and Cultural Difference on the Voyage from Britain to the South Pacific in the Early Nineteenth Century
Focusing on the outbreak of disease on the Royal Admiral, this article explores how oceanic voyaging shaped the evangelisation of the South Pacific in the early nineteenth century. Incorporating a microhistorical approach, it argues that missionary experiences on board were embedded in the theological impetus of evangelical overseas expansion; they helped consolidate missionary understandings of cultural difference; and they simultaneously put a …
Medicine as a Lens to Examine Cross-Cultural Encounters: A Study of Medical Missionary Samuel Hayward Ford’s Writings in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand
Medical missionary Samuel Hayward Ford arrived in New Zealand’s Bay of Islands in the late 1830s, a few years before the formal colonisation of the country. His letters and medical reports to the Committee of the Church Missionary Society revealed the complicated and malleable nature of medicine in the cross-cultural encounter. Through close study of Ford’s writings, this article argues that medicine worked to transform and interweave Māori and m…
Sexual Health, Morality and the Missionary Press in Britain and the South Pacific, 1795–1850
This article explores the London Missionary Society’s textual production on the South Pacific in the first half of the nineteenth century and argues that sexuality was connected to moral and physical understandings of health in missionary texts. This was due to the nature of missionary and indigenous entanglements in the South Pacific and the era’s burgeoning medical print network. The discussion builds on current debates on mission and the cultu…
Childbirth and Emerging Missionary Information Networks in Britain and the South Pacific
This article explores how childbirth shaped the information networks that London Missionary Society missionaries helped develop between Britain and the South Pacific from the late eighteenth century. As Evangelical missionaries experienced challenging births in the South Pacific, they sought new forms of cultural knowledge, which they recorded in their reports to the society. Part of these knowledge networks included books on medicine and midwife…
Entanglement” as a concept in recent research on Christian missions in the South Pacific and Africa
This article provides a short overview of ‘entanglement’ in recent histories of mission, examining what distinguishes it from earlier conceptualisations of cross‐cultural encounters. This article locates the emergence of the term in the social sciences and global histories of empire, and explores its current influence in studies of Christian evangelism in imperial and colonial contexts. This article shows the strengths of recent works on entangle…
Religion, Disease and Cultural Difference on the Voyage from Britain to the South Pacific in the Early Nineteenth Century
Focusing on the outbreak of disease on the Royal Admiral, this article explores how oceanic voyaging shaped the evangelisation of the South Pacific in the early nineteenth century. Incorporating a microhistorical approach, it argues that missionary experiences on board were embedded in the theological impetus of evangelical overseas expansion; they helped consolidate missionary understandings of cultural difference; and they simultaneously put a …
Assembling Home in the Mission Field: Evangelical Periodical Culture in Britain and Tahiti, ca. 1790s–1830s
This article explores the complex cultural processes that engineered the production and circulation of British evangelical periodicals in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It draws on a vast collection of missionary archival material from Tahiti to show the patched-together character of evangelical periodicals, constituted by highly mobile texts that connected readers across vast geographic distances. Furthermore, it illustrates…
Anthropology (3 works) · Australian History and Society (3 works) · Ethnology (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · British Empire (2 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works) · Empire (2 works)