3.3 Asia, Australia and the Pacific

Alejandro, Dionisio Deista. From Darkness To Light: A Brief Chronicle of the Beginnings and Spread of Methodism in the Philippines. Quezon City, Philippines: United Methodist Church, Philippines Central Conference, Board of Communications and Publications, 1974.

Allardice, R.W. The Methodist Story in Samoa, 1828-1984. Apia: Methodist Conference of Samoa, 1984.

Anderson, Samuel J. The New Zealand Methodist Times 1910-1966: Changing Purposes of Methodist Media. Auckland: Wesley Historical Society of New Zealand, 2019.

Cant, Garth. The Methodist Response to the Formation of the Ratana Church in 1924-1925. Auckland: Wesley Historical Society of New Zealand, 2018.

Chang, Jung. Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.

Close-Barry, Kirstie. A Mission Divided: Colonialism, Race & Colonialism in Fiji’s Methodist Mission. Acton: Australian National University Press, 2015.

Clover, Gary A. Collision, Compromise, and Conversion during the Wesleyan Hokianga Mission, 1827-1855: A Critical Study of Hokianga Māori, Missionary and Kauri Merchant Interactions. Nelson: 2018.

_____. William Woon, 1803-1858: Wesleyan Printer in Tonga and New Zealand. Manurewa: Wesley Historical Society of New Zealand, 2014.

Davies, Daniel M. The Life and Thought of Henry Gerhard Appenzeller: Missionary to Korea. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1988.

De Réland, Elizabeth, et al. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia & New Zealand. Parramatta, New South Wales, Parramatta Mission, 2019.

Dharmaraj, Glory E., and Diane Miller. India and Pakistan: A Mission Study for 2005-2006. New York: General Board of Global Ministries, The United Methodist Church, 2005.

Doraisamy, Theodore R. Methodism in Asia: A Bird’s-eye View. Singapore: Asian Night Committee, World Methodist Conference, The Methodist Church in Singapore, 1991.

Fa’alafi, Fineaso T S. Carrying the Faith: Samoan Methodism: 1828-1928. Apia: Piula Theological College, 2005.

Gamboa, Jose, et al. Methodism in the Philippines: A Century of Faith and Vision. Manila: Philippines Central Conference, The United Methodist Church, 2003.

Garrett, John. To Live Among the Stars: Christian Origins in Oceania. Geneva: World Council of Churches in association with the Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, 1982.

–––––. Footsteps in the Sea: Christians in Oceania to World War II. Geneva: World Council of Churches in association with the Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, 1992.

Goh, Robbie B. H. Sparks of Grace: The Story of Methodism in Asia. Singapore: The Methodist Church in Singapore, 2003.

Grayson, James H. Korea: A Religious History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Hanciles, Jehu, ed. The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions: Volume IV, The Twentieth Century, Traditions in a Global Context. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. See chapter, “Fijian and Tongan Methodism,” by Jane Samson.

Hunt, A. D. This Side of Heaven: A History of Methodism in South Australia. Adelaide: Lutheran Publishing House, 1985.

Istomina, Lydia P. Bringing Hidden Things to Light: The Revival of Methodism in Russia. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996.

Kadiba, John. People’s Man: Life Story of Reverend Sir Leslie Tanaboe Boseto. Charles Sturt University, 2019.

Kimbrough, Jr., S T. Methodism in Russia and the Baltic States: History and Renewal. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1995.

_____. A Pilgrim with a Poet’s Soul: George A. Simons (1874-1952): A Pioneer Missionary in Russia and the Baltic States (1907-1928). Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2019.

The Korean Methodist Church. Seoul: Korean Methodist Church, 2013.

Krummel, John W., ed. A Biographical Dictionary of Methodist Missionaries to Japan, 1873-1973. Tokyo: Kyo Bun Kwan, 1996.

_____. The Methodist Protestant Church in Japan. 2 parts. Tokyo: Aoyama Gakuin University, 1982-1983.

Lacy, Walter N. A Hundred Years of China Methodism. Nashville: Abingdon-Cokesbury, 1948.

Latukefu, Sione. Church and State in Tonga: The Wesleyan Methodist Missionaries and Political Development, 1822-1875. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1974.

Lau, Earnest. From Mission to Church: The Evolution of the Methodist Church in Singapore and Malaysia, 1885-1976. Singapore: Methodist Church in Singapore, 2003.

Leigh, Michael D. Conflict, Politics, and Proselytism: Methodist Missionaries in Colonial and Post-colonial Upper Burma, 1887-1966. Manchester and New York: University of Manchester Press, 2011.

Lineham, Peter J. Weaving the Unfinished Mats: Wesley’s Legacy, Conflict, Confusion and Challenge in the South Pacific. Orewa, NZ: Wesley Historical Society (New Zealand), 2007.

Maiuka, Eare. Methodist Church in Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea: University of Papua New Guinea, Library, 1975.

Mathews, James K. Focus on Methodism in Southern Asia: India and Pakistan. New York: Division of Foreign Missions of the Board of Missions and Church Extension, Methodist Church, 1950.

Mavor, John E. Challenge in the North (three studies on Melanesia): The Work of the Methodist Church in New Guinea, Papua, the Solomon Islands and the Papua-New Guinea Highlands. Brisbane: Methodist Federal Board of Education, 1963.

Methodist Church in Singapore. Days of Darkness, Days of Light: The Singapore Methodist Community’s Stories of Experiences during the Japanese Occupation (1942-1945). Singapore: Methodist Church in Singapore, 2015.

Nikolaev, Sergei V. “The Orthodox Challenge to Methodism in Russia,” in The Oxford Handbook to Methodist Studies, eds. William J. Abraham and James E. Kirby. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Methodist History in Korea. Seoul: The Korean Methodist Church, 2001.

Minor, Rüdiger R. “Methodism in Russia and the Baltics: Old and New Beginnings.” In T & T Clark Companion to Methodism, ed. Charles Yrigoyen, Jr. London and New York: T & T Clark, 2010.

O’Brien, Glen. Wesleyan-Holiness Churches in Australia: Hallelujah under the Southern Cross. London: Taylor & Francis, 2020.

O’Brien, Glen, and Hilary M. Carey, eds. Methodism in Australia: A History. London: Routledge, 2018.

Oconer, Luther Jeremiah. “Holiness Revivalism in Early Philippine Methodism.” Methodist History 44 (January 2006): 80-93.

—–. “Methodism in Asia and the Pacific.” In T & T Clark Companion to Methodism, ed. Charles Yrigoyen, Jr. London and New York: T & T Clark, 2010.

—–. Spirit-Filled Protestantism: Holiness-Pentecostal Revivals and the Making of Filipino Methodist Identity. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2017.

Owens, J.M.R. The Wesleyan Missionaries to New Zealand before 1840. Auckland, NZ: Wesley Historical Society (New Zealand), 1982.

Peh Swee Kian, Andrew. Of Merchants and Missions: A Historical Study of the Impact of British Colonialism on American Methodism in Singapore from 1885 to 1910. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2019.

Piggin, Stuart. Evangelical Christianity in Australia: Spirit, Word and World. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Pole, Siosifa. Fisi’inaua ‘I Vaha – a Tongan Migrant’s Way: A Methodist Minister applies Tongan Social Concepts in a New Zealand Setting. Wellington, New Zealand: Philip Garside Publishing Ltd., 2020.

Press, Michael. Salvation in Melanesia: Becoming a New Person in Churches in Fiji and Papua New Guinea. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020.

Scott, David W. Mission As Globalization: Methodists in Southeast Asia at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2016.

Senior, Geoffrey R. The China Experience: A Study of the Methodist Mission in China. Peterborough, UK: WMHS Publications, 1994.

Shin-Lee, Kyung-Lim. “Sisters in Christ: American Women Missionaries in Ewha Women’s University.” in Spirituality and Social Responsibility. Edited by Rosemary Skinner Keller. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1993.

Sila, Saunoa. E Tautala Aso: History of Piula Theological College 1868-2018. Apia, Samoa: Piula Publication, 2018.

Storch, Tanya. Religions and Missionaries around the Pacific, 1500-1900. Aldershot, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate/Variorum, 2006.

Threlfall, N. A. One Hundred Years in the Islands: The Methodist-United Church in the New Guinea Islands Region, 1875-1975. Rabaul, Papau New Guinea: The United Church, New Guinea Islands Region, 1975.

Vergara, Alex R., ed. Waves, 1888-1988: The United Methodist Church of Hawaii: A Centennial Jubilee. Koloa, Hawaii: Taylor Publishing of Kauai; Honolulu: United Methodist Union, 1988.

Ward, Ethel E. Ordered Steps, or, the Wards of India: A Biography of the Lives of Ernest Fremont Ward and Phebe Elizabeth Cox Ward, Missionaries to India, 1880-1927. Wilmore, KY: First Fruits Press, 2019.

Ward, Rowland S. The Rev. John Waterhouse (1789-1842) and His Family. Victoria: New Melbourne Press, 2019.

Wardin, Albert W., Jr. Evangelical Sectarianism in the Russian Empire and the USSR: A Bibliographical Guide. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1995.

Wesley Methodist Church (Singapore). Our Cup Runneth Over: A Journey to East Asia. Singapore: Wesley Methodist Church, 2014.

Wood, A. Harold. Overseas Missions of the Australian Methodist Church. Four Volumes. Melbourne: Aldersgate Press, [1975-1980].

Zaccarini, Maria Cristina. The Sino-American Friendship as Tradition and Challenge: Dr. Ailie Gale in China, 1908-1950. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, 2001.