Choiseul and the missionaries : the Methodist Mission on Choiseul, Solomon Islands, 1905-1941 : a thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Philosophy at Massey University, Albany
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2009
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Massey University
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This project will examine the impact and the progress of Methodist missionary work on
Choiseul from 1905 to 1941. The predominant European contact on Choiseul was with
missionaries and this was significantly more recent than many of the other islands in the
group. Choiseul was unattractive for settlement or commercial development because the
lack of arable land meant that it was unsuitable for large plantations to be established. A
lacuna exists in the current historiography of the Solomons with regard to Choiseul. A
study of the Methodist Mission on Choiseul offers the opportunity to examine the
development of the mission, and the people on the island during the period under study,
and fill that gap. The nature of conversion to Christianity on Choiseul, and the way the
missionaries, including European, Solomon Islanders and Pacific Islanders, operated,
cooperated, and disagreed with the Choiseulese and with each other will be examined to
help answer the question, to what extent was Choiseul a Methodist, or a missionary,
island.
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Choiseul, Methodist Mission, Solomon Islands