Description: This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of religious cultural exchanges around the Pacific in the period 1500-1900, relating these to economic and political developments and to the expansion of communication across the area. It brings together twenty-two pieces, from diaries of religious exiles and missionary field observations, to studies from a variety of academic disciplines, so enabling a multitude of voices to be heard. The articles are grouped in sections dealing with the Islamic period, the Iberian Catholic period, the Jewish diaspora, the Russian Orthodox church, the epoch of Protestant culture and finally Asian immigrant religions in the West; a substantial introduction contextualizes these chapters in terms of both historical and contemporary approaches.
Review Quotes: '... Religions and Missionaries around the Pacific is a valuable addition to an important series focusing on the Pacific world. The series should be purchased by research libraries for use of scholars at all levels, from undergraduate to post-doctoral.' Itinerario '... this is a wide-ranging collection that touches on many issues and brings together a number of essays that might otherwise be difficult to obtain... There is a valuable introduction by the editor highlighting some of the important themes that emerge from the collection.' Anglican and Episcopal History