{"id":45889,"date":"2016-05-19T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=45889"},"modified":"2020-01-16T14:55:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T00:55:44","slug":"kealani-cook-publishes-native-hawaiian-foreign-mission-work-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/05\/19\/kealani-cook-publishes-native-hawaiian-foreign-mission-work-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Kealani Cook publishes Native Hawaiian foreign mission work article"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Kealani Cook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>–West Oʻahu<\/span><\/a> Assistant Professor of History<\/a> Kealani Cook<\/strong> published “Ke Ao a me Ka Pō: Postmillennial Thought and Native Hawaiian Foreign Mission Work”<\/a> in American Quarterly,<\/em><\/a> the preeminent guide to American studies published by Johns Hopkins University Press.<\/p>\n

Through Native Hawaiian missionary interactions with and treatment of other islanders between 1852 and 1900, Cook examines the effects of post-millennial thinking on Native Hawaiian relationships with their American missionary teachers, their Islander hosts and their own pre-Christian past. <\/p>\n

Specifically he examines how the theological underpinnings of Native Hawaiian and American Congregationalism required Native Hawaiian Christians to prove their collective and individual “maturity” as a Christians and their readiness to control the church within Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>. Foreign mission work allowed them to prove this maturity, yet it also placed the Native Hawaiian missionaries in a situation where proof of their own salvation and their distance from their pre-Christian past, came largely through the denunciation of their host peoples within the Marquesas and Micronesia.<\/p>\n

Cook’s research focuses primarily on Native Hawaiian travels within the Pacific and relationships with other peoples of Oceania.<\/p>\n

—By Julie Funasaki Yuen<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UH<\/abbr> West Oʻahu<\/span>’s Kealani Cook examines the effects of post-millennial thinking on Native Hawaiian relationships with their American missionary teachers, Islander hosts and their pre-Christian past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[813,906,33,225,158,59],"class_list":["post-45889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-american-studies","tag-e-kamakani-hou","tag-hawaiian","tag-history","tag-publication","tag-uh-west-oahu","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t