{"id":1367,"date":"2016-04-06T08:46:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T20:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2016-04-06T08:46:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T20:46:19","slug":"launch-of-new-book-on-new-zealands-overseas-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/launch-of-new-book-on-new-zealands-overseas-missions\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch of New Book on New Zealand&#8217;s Overseas Missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Come along to help launch and celebrate Dr Hugh Morrison&#8217;s new book, <em>Pushing the Boundaries: New Zealand Protestants and Overseas Missions<\/em>, 1827-1939, at the University Book Shop (Great King Street), Friday 8th April, at 5.30pm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/files\/2016\/04\/hugh-book.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1369 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/files\/2016\/04\/hugh-book-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"hugh-book\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/files\/2016\/04\/hugh-book-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/files\/2016\/04\/hugh-book.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a>Published by Otago University Press<em>, &#8220;Pushing Boundaries<\/em> is the first book-length attempt to tell the story of the evolution of overseas missionary activity by New Zealand\u2019s Protestant churches from the early nineteenth century up to World War II.\u00a0\u00a0 In this thought-provoking book, Hugh Morrison outlines how and why missions became important to colonial churches \u2013 the theological and social reasons churches supported missions, how their ideas were shaped, and what motivated individual New Zealanders to leave these shores to devote their lives elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Secondly, he connects this local story to some larger historical themes \u2013 of gender, culture, empire, childhood and education. This book argues that understanding the overseas missionary activity of Protestant churches and groups can contribute to a more general understanding of how New Zealand has developed as a society and nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hugh is a historian of missiology, a member of the Centre for Research on Colonial Culture, and a staff member at the College of Education, University of Otago.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come along to help launch and celebrate Dr Hugh Morrison&#8217;s new book, Pushing the Boundaries: New Zealand Protestants and Overseas Missions, 1827-1939, at the University Book Shop (Great King Street), Friday 8th April, at 5.30pm. Published by Otago University Press, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17454],"tags":[17474,34026,45194,45193],"class_list":["post-1367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-launch","tag-crocc","tag-mission-history","tag-new-zealand-missions","tag-religious-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}