Dispatches from the Wilderness: A History of the Canadian Missionaries and Korean Protestants in Northern Korea and Manchuria, 1893 - 1928

Glover, Frederick James

Dispatches from the Wilderness: A History of the Canadian Missionaries and Korean Protestants in Northern Korea and Manchuria, 1893 - 1928

dc.contributor.advisor	Marshall, David B.
dc.contributor.author	Glover, Frederick James
dc.contributor.committeemember	Colpitts, George
dc.contributor.committeemember	Wright, David Curtis
dc.contributor.committeemember	Apple, James B.
dc.contributor.committeemember	Samson, Jane
dc.date	2018-11
dc.date.accessioned	2018-09-20T20:30:44Z
dc.date.available	2018-09-20T20:30:44Z
dc.date.issued	2018-09-12
dc.description.abstract	This thesis examines the motivations of the Canadian Missionaries and Korean Protestants in in Hamgyeong Province (Northeastern Korea) and Gando (Southeastern Manchuria) as well as the influence they had on one another during the first two decades of the twentieth century. The analysis of Canadian motivations demonstrated that they were wholly consumed with building the mission and would do nearly anything to ensure that it succeed, including: working themselves to exhaustion, cooperating with Protestant nationalists, vigorously protesting against the Japanese colonial government's brutal suppression of the Koreans in 1919 and 1920 as well as capitulating to the demands of their constituency when they were forcefully expressed in the 1920s. The Korean Protestants wanted changes to be made to the educational and financial policies of the mission and some resorted to violence in an effort to spur the Canadians into action. The examination of Korean motivations shows that they gravitated toward the Church for a variety of reasons, one of the most salient being, their desire to reclaim their nation from the Japanese imperialists. The discussion of the influence that the Canadians had on the Koreans revealed, among other things, that their decision to work with, rather than against the nationalists, contributed to further radicalizing the Church, and their "women's work" helped to transform the nature of gender relations in Hamgyeong and Gando. The investigation of the Koreans showed that they too had much influence. The Canadians understood that they had to "do the bidding" of the Koreans for the mission to succeed, as is most clearly seen in their resolve to transform the mission in the 1920s. The study of the Canadians and Koreans in Hamgyeong and Gando enhances our understanding of the missionizer and the missionized in the overseas mission field by providing a different way of viewing the motivations of the former and emphasizing the agency and power of the latter; enriches our knowledge of Korean Christian history by revealing how and why the Canadians and Koreans built a distinct mission and Church; and illuminates the role that the Presbyterian Maritime Church played in the Canadian missionary movement.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Glover, F. J. (2018). Dispatches from the Wilderness: A History of the Canadian Missionaries and Korean Protestants in Northern Korea and Manchuria, 1893 - 1928 (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/32960	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/32960
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/107797
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher.faculty	Arts
dc.publisher.faculty	Graduate Studies
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary	en
dc.publisher.place	Calgary	en
dc.rights	University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subject	Canadian Missionary Movement
dc.subject	Korean Christian History
dc.subject	North Korean History
dc.subject	Japanese Imperialism
dc.subject	World Christianity
dc.subject	Canadian-Korean Relations
dc.subject	Gender and Mission
dc.subject.classification	Religion	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Religion--History of	en_US
dc.subject.classification	History	en_US
dc.subject.classification	History--Asia, Australia, and Oceania	en_US
dc.subject.classification	History--Canadian	en_US
dc.subject.classification	History--Church	en_US
dc.title	Dispatches from the Wilderness: A History of the Canadian Missionaries and Korean Protestants in Northern Korea and Manchuria, 1893 - 1928
dc.type	doctoral thesis
thesis.degree.discipline	History
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Calgary
thesis.degree.name	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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