Try the spirits: power encounters and anti-wonder in Christian missions
Missionaries who attempted to convert Pacific Islanders to Protestant Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries often engaged in public contests meant to demonstrate the power of Jehovah and the weakness of indigenous gods. These 'power encounters', as they came to be called,...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis
[2017]
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Journal of religious and political practice
Year: 2017, Volume: 3, Issue: 3, Pages: 168-182 |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Missionaries B Fiji B Christianity B power encounters |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |