Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pacific

The Transformation of Global Christianity

By: L. M. Ratnapalan

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Paperback | 30 November 2024

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Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pacific Islands re-orients the intellectual biography of Robert Louis Stevenson by presenting him in the distinctive cultural environment of the Pacific. The book argues that Stevenson was religiously literate within a Scottish Presbyterian tradition and therefore well placed to grasp with subtlety the breadth and dynamics of a Christianized Pacific culture. It considers his legacy with respect to issues of indigenous sovereignty and agency and positions him within an important and wide-ranging modern debate about inculturation, defined as the emergence of Christianity from within a particular culture rather than imposed on it from outside. Through this study of a major Scottish writer, the book offers a model of interdisciplinary scholarship.

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This is a book of startling breadth and originality. Ratnapalan has not simply made a major contribution to Stevenson studies; he has also brought scholarly analysis of the Presbyterian literary culture of late nineteenth-century Scotland into a surprisingly fruitful engagement with the modern anthropology of Pacific Christianity.--Brian Stanley, University of Edinburgh

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