Emily Manktelow: 2 books
Missionary families
Race, gender and generation on the spiritual frontier
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Missionary families were an integral component of the missionary enterprise, both as active agents on the global religious stage and as a force within the enterprise that shaped understandings and theories of mission itself. Taking the family as a legitimate unit of historical analysis in its own...
Gender, Power and Sexual Abuse in the Pacific
Rev. Simpson’s "Improper Liberties†?
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
In 1843 on the island of Tahiti the evangelical missionary Rev. Alexander Simpson was accused of sexually assaulting three of the female students under his care, and of taking 'improper liberties' with at least three more. The events did not come out in public for at least a decade, while Simpson's...