A fundamental goal of Christian missionaries in the Pacific was to depose indigenous deities
and substitute them with Christian beliefs. Hence, they were constantly battling indigenous …

Acquiring Cultures: Histories of World Art on Western Markets Bénédicte Savoy, Charlotte
Guichard and Christine Howald (eds.) Acquiring Cultures Page 2 Page 3 Acquiring Cultures …

Studies in World Christianity have often analysed a variety of religious expression by
attending to local responses under-represented in global church structures. Many historians …

The paper deals with missionary exhibitions in Slovenia in the first half of the 20th century. It
contextualizes them within a wider framework and historical development of such exhibition …

The late 18th and early 19th centuries in Europe and the United States saw a wave of
evangelical revivalism and hence the establishment of a large number of missionary …

Since the time of the founding of the Uganda Museum, curators have been obliged to work
with very limited budgets, with only a few staff, and with shortfalls in equipment and …

1. The Judsons' celebrity is particularly striking considering how few women in this period
achieved the level of fame that Ann Judson (and Harriet Newell, another missionary who set …

Very little is known about the Royal Navy's Haslar Hospital Museum, located in Gosport,
near Portsmouth, and yet the now defunct institution was one of the nineteenth century's …

Then there was this doll that really spoke to my soul. As a designer, I could see that this doll
was made by a child. Maybe a child that was sitting under a tree with her grandmother, who …

The Christianisation of the Tuamotu Archipelago, a large group of atolls lying between the
Society and Marquesas archipelagos, was the subject of intense rivalry between several …