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Tracing the lives of some two hundred Native Hawaiian teachers, preachers, pastors, and missionaries, __Nā Kahu__ provides new historical perspectives of the indigenous ministry in Hawai‘i. These Christian emissaries were affiliated first with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and later with the Hawaiian Evangelical Association. The first part of the book presents the biographies of nineteen young Hawaiians, studying as messengers of Christianity in the remote New England town of Cornwell, Connecticut, along with “heathen” from other lands. The second part—the core of the book—moves to Hawai‘i, tracing the careers of pastors and missionaries, as well as recognizing their intellectual and political endeavors. There is also a discussion of the educational institutions established to train an indigenous ministry and the gradual acceptance of ordained Hawaiians as equals to their western counterparts. Included in an appendix is the little-known story of Christian __ali‘i__, Hawaiian chiefs, both men and women, who contributed to the mission by lending their authority to the cause and by contributing land and labor for the construction of churches. By the mid-185

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Author

Nancy J Morris, (Librarian); Robert Benedetto

Publisher

University of Hawaiʻi Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780824877774

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, History, Science