Religions and Missionaries Around the Pacific, 1500-1900

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Religions and Missionaries Around the Pacific, 1500-1900 is written by Tanya Storch and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0754606678 (ISBN 10) and 9780754606673 (ISBN 13).

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.