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Important Pacific Region Missionary Studies Resources

The Best Pacific Region Missionary Studies Resouce

  • Britsch, R. Lanier. Unto the Islands of the Sea: A History of the Latter-day Saints in the Pacific. Salt Lake City: Deseret book, 1986.

Other Important Pacific Missionary Studies (in alpabetical order)

  • Clement, Russell T., comp. Mormons in the Pacific: A Bibliography. Laie: the Institute for Polynesian Studies, 1981.
  • Douglas, Norman. “Latter-day Saint Missions and Missionaries in Polynesia, 1844–1960.” Ph.D. diss., Australian National University, 1974.
  • Ellsworth, Marie S. “The First Mormon Missionary Women in the Pacific, 1850–1852.” In Proceedings, Eleventh Annual Conference, Mormon Pacific Historical Society, June 10–16, 1990, 123-41. n.p.: Mormon Pacific Historical Society, 1990.
  • Madsen, Carol C. “Mormon Missionary Wives in Nineteenth Century Polynesia,” Journal of Mormon History 13 (1986–87): 61–85.
  • Maffly-Kipp, Laurie F. “Looking West: Mormonism and the Pacific World,” Journal of Mormon History 26 (Spring 2000): 40-63.
  • Stanton, Max E. “A Gathering of Saints: The Role of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Pacific Islander Migration.” In A World Perspective on Pacific Islander Migration, ed. G. McCall and J. Connell., 23-37. Sydney: Centre for South Pacific Studies, The University of New South Wales, 1993.
  • Underwood, Grant, ed. Voyages of Faith: Explorations in Mormon Pacific History. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 2000.
  • Underwood, Grant. The Historiography of Latter-day Saints in the Pacific. Provo, UT: Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for latter-day Saint History, 2004.
  • Whittaker, David J. “Parley P. Pratt and the Pacific Mission: Mormon Publishing in ‘That Very Questionable Part of the Civilized World.’” In Mormons, Scripture, and the Ancient World: Studies in Honor of John L. Sorenson, 51-84. Provo: FARMS, 1998.

Hawaiian Islands

  • Beebe, Fred G. The Cluff Missionaries in the Sandwich Islands. n.p.: The Author, 1987.
  • Bird, Adren J. “Koolau District, Maui, Beginning of a Successful LDS Mission.” In Proceedings, Tenth Annual Conference, Mormon Pacific Historical Society, July 28–29, 1989, 57–65. n.p.: Mormon Pacific Historical Society, 1989.
  • Bishop, M. Guy. “Henry William Bigler: Mormon Missionary to the Sandwich Islands during the 1850s.” Hawaiian Journal of History 20 (1986): 122-36.
  • Bishop, M. Guy. “Waging Holy War: Mormon—Congregationalist Conflict in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Hawaii.” Journal of Mormon History 17 (1991): 110-19.
  • Bock, Comfort Margaret. “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Hawaiian Islands.” M.A thesis, University of Hawaii, 1941.
  • Britsch, R. Lanier. “The Lanai Colony: A Hawaiian Extension of the Mormon Colonial Idea.” Hawaiian Journal of History 12 (1978): 68-83.
  • Britsch, R. Lanier. Mormona: The Mormons in Hawaii. Laie: Institute for Polynesian Studies, 1989.
  • Chase, Lance D. “The Hawaiian Mission Crisis of 1874: Character as Destiny.” In Proceedings, First Annual Conference, Mormon History in the Pacific, August 1-2, 1980, 87-97. n.p.: Mormon Pacific Historical Society, August 1980.
  • Chase, Lance D. “Horse Soldiers and the Spaulding Manuscript: Hawaiian Missionary Life a Century Ago.” In Proceedings, Fourth Annual Conference, Mormon History in the Pacific, April 30, 1983, 9-16. n.p.: Mormon Pacific Historical Society, April 1983.
  • Chase, Lance D. “John Stillman Woodbury and the Battle Against Ignorance, Superstition and Prejudice in Hawaii, 1851–1878.” In Proceedings, Sixth Annual Conference, Mormon History in the Pacific, March 2, 1985, 39-44. n.p.: Mormon Pacific Historical Society, 1985.
  • Chase, Lance D. “Life in Early Laie, 1850–1883.” In Proceedings, Second Annual Conference, Mormon History in the Pacific, May 8-9, 1981, 91-102. n.p.: Mormon Pacific Historical Society, 1981.
  • Chase, Lance D. “Samuel Edwin Woolley: A Valet’s Hero.” In Proceedings, Twelfth Annual Conference, Mormon Pacific Historical Society, May 25, 1991, 20-34. n.p.: Mormon Pacific Historical Society, 1991.
  • Clement, Russell T. “Apostle in Exile: Joseph F. Smith’s Third Mission to Hawaii, 1885–1887.” In Proceedings, Seventh Annual Conference, Mormon History in the Pacific, March 1, 1986, 53–59. n.p.: Mormon Pacific Historical Society, 1986.
  • Ellsworth, George S. Zion in Paradise: Early Mormons in the South Seas. Logan: The Faculty Association, Utah State University, 1959.
  • Flake, Lawrence R. “George Q. Cannon: His Missionary Years.” D.R.E. diss., Brigham Young University, 1970.
  • Harvey, Richard C. “The Development of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hawaii.” M.A. thesis, Brigham Young University, 1974. Click to view full-text:
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  • Josephson, Marba C. “A Glance at Hawaiian Mission History.” Improvement Era (August 1950): 619-20, 666-69.
  • Kenney, Scott G. “Mormons and the Smallpox Epidemic of 1853.” Hawaiian Journal of History 31 (1997): 1-26.
  • LeBaron, E. Dale. Benjamin F. Johnson: Friend to the Prophets. Provo, UT: Grandin Book, 1997.
  • Murphy, Castle H. Castles of Zion—Hawaii: Autobiography and Episodes from the Life of Castle A. Murphy, Missionary to Hawaii. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1963.
  • Oldroyd, Julia Ann. “A Mighty Woman in Zion: The Roles of Mary Jane Dilworth Hammond as an LDS Missionary Wife in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii.” Thetean 23 (Winter 1994): 29-44.
  • Pack, Alice C. Building Missionaries in Hawaii, 1960–1963. Laie: Church College of Hawaii, ca. 1963.
  • Pack, Marvin E. “The Sandwich Islands Country and Mission,” Contributor 17 (November 1895-October 1896): 11-part series (skips March), last five deal with missionary work.
  • Reigels, Elizabeth Woolley and Ruth Woolley Austin. “Our Lei to You: A Biography of Samuel Edwin Woolley.” In Proceedings, Seventh Annual Conference, Mormon History in the Pacific, March 1, 1986, 35–40. n.p.: Mormon Pacific Historical Society, 1986.
  • Russell, Francis J. “Diamond Jubilee of Missionary Effort in Hawaii,” Improvement Era (May 1926): 613-19.
  • Shaffer, Donald R. “A Forgotten Missionary: Hiram Clark, Mormon Itinerant, British Emigration Organizer, and First President of the L.D.S. Hawaiian Mission, 1795–1853.” M.A. thesis, California State University, Fullerton, 1990.
  • Shaffer, Donald R. “Hiram Clark and the first LDS Hawaiian Mission: A Reappraisal.” Journal of Mormon History 17 (1991): 94-109.
  • Spurrier, Joseph H. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Hawaiian Islands. Salt Lake City: Hawkes, 1978.
  • Spurrier, Joseph H. “The Life and Times of Early Missionaries to Polynesia.” In Proceedings, Second Annual Conference, Mormon Pacific Historical Society, July 28-29, 1989, 14-24. n.p.: Mormon Pacific Historical Society, 1989.
  • Spurrier, Joseph H. Sandwich Island Saints: Early Mormon Converts in the Hawaiian Islands. Oahu: Spurrier, 1989.
  • Taylor, Lorenzo. Hawaiian Mission, 1904–1908. From the Diaries of Lorenzo Taylor. Hyde Park, UT: Lorenzo Taylor, 1990.

South Pacific: Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti, and French Polynesia

  • Brewer, W. Karl. Armed with the Spirit: Missionary Experiences in Samoa. Provo: BYU Press, 1975.
  • Britsch, R. Lanier. “The Church in the South Pacific.” Ensign (February 1976): 20-27. Click to see full–text: http://library.lds.org/nxt/gateway.dll?f=templates$fn=default.htm
  • Britsch, R. Lanier. “The Expansion of Mormonism in the South Pacific.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 13 (Spring 1980): 53-62. Click to see full–text: http://dialoguejournal.com/
  • Britsch, R. Lanier. “The Founding of the Samoan Mission.” BYU Studies 18 (Fall 1977): 12-26. Full text
  • Britsch, R. Lanier. “Refounding of the LDS Mission in French Polynesia, 1982.” Pacific Studies 3 (Fall 1979): 68-80.
  • Cannon, Eugene M. “Tahiti and the Society Islands Mission.” Juvenile Instructor 32 (January–June 1897): 11–part series.
  • Ellsworth, Maria S. “The First Mormon Missionary Women in the Pacific, 1850–1852.” In Proceedings, Eleventh Annual Conference, Mormon Pacific Historical Society, June 10–16, 1990, 123–41. n.p.: Mormon Pacific Historical Society, 1990. [Caroline Barnes Crosby; Louisa Barnes Pratt]
  • Ellsworth, S. George. “New Wine in Old bottles: The LDS conversion Experience in French Polyneisa.” In Proceedings, Second Annual Conference, Mormon History in the Pacific, May 8–9, 1981, 1-10. n.p.: Mormon Pacific Historical Society, 1981.
  • Ellsworth, S. George. Seasons of Faith and Courage: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in French Polynesia: A Sesquicentennial History, 1843–1993. Sandy, UT: Perrin, 1994.
  • Gordon, Tamar G. “Inventing Mormon Identify in Tonga.” Ph.D. diss., University of California, Berkeley, 1988.
  • Green, Doyle L. “French Polynesia.” Improvement Era (May 1966): 377-80.
  • Green, Doyle L. “Mission to Polynesia: The Story of Addison Pratt and the Society Islands Mission.” Improvement Era (March 1949-March 1950): 10–part series.
  • Green, Doyle L. “Tahiti: Looking Back on a Century of Work in French Oceania.” Improvement Era (October 1939): 592-93, 632-33.
  • Groberg, John H. In the Eye of the Storm [Tonga]. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1993.
  • Harris, Duane P. “Missionaries in the Last Kingdom [Tonga].” Honors thesis, Harvard University, 1989.
  • Harris, R. Carl. Samoa Apia Mission History, 1888–1983. n.p.: Samoa Printing, 1983.
  • Hart, Jennie M., John W. Hart, and R. Carl Harris. The Expanded Samoan Mission History, 1888–1900, vol. 1. n.p.: Corporation of the President, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1988.
  • Jenson, Andrew. “The Society Islands Mission.” Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine 5–8 (January 1914–April 1917): 12–part series.
  • Pratt, Addison. The Journals of Addison Pratt: Being a Narrative of Yankee Whaling in the Eighteen Twenties, a Mormon Mission to the Society Islands, and of Early California and Utah in the Eighteen Forties and Fifties. Edited by S. George Ellsworth. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1990.
  • Pratt, Louisa Barnes. The History of Louisa Barnes Pratt: Being the Autobiography of a Mormon Missionary Widow and Pioneer. Edited by S. George Ellsworth. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1998.
  • Richter, Alatini. “Missionary Work in Tonga. In Proceedings, Second Annual Conference, Mormon History in the Pacific, May 8-9, 1981, 49-64. n.p.: Mormon Pacific Historical Society, 1981.
  • Shumway, Eric B. “A Tongan Missionary Journal: History as Anecdote.” In Proceedings, Sixth Annual Conference, Mormon History in the Pacific, March 2, 1985, 2, 23-31. n.p.: Mormon Pacific Historical Society, 1985. [His Tongan mission experiences]
  • Stanton, Max E. “Samoan Saints: Samoans in the Mormon Village of Laie, Hawaii.” Ph.D. diss., University of Oregon, 1973.
  • Tagg, Melvin S. The Life of Edward James Wood, Church Patriot.” M.S. thesis, Brigham Young University, 1959. [Samoa]
  • Whitley, Thomas Farrar. ‘I Make a Record of the Things Which I Have Both Seen and Heard’: The Missionary Diaries and Papers of Thomas Farrar Whitley, Tonga, 1935–1938. Salt Lake City: Privately printed by the Whitley Family, 2004.
  • Yeaman, Ruth R. “Women from Zion in the Samoan Mission: 1888–1900.” In Proceedings, Eleventh Annual Conference, Mormon Pacific Historical Society, June 10–16, 1990, 54–80. n.p.: Mormon Pacific Historical society, 1990.

New Zealand and Australia

  • Barber, Ian G. “Between Biculturalism and Assimilation: The Changing Place of Maori Culture in the Twentieth Century New Zealand Mormon Church.” New Zealand Journal of History 29 (October 1995): 142-69.
  • Barker, Ian R. “The Connexion: The Mormon Church and the Maori People.” M.A. thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, 1967.
  • Christensen, Harold T. “The New Zealand Mission During the Great Depression: Reflections of a Former Acting President.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 24 (Fall 1991): 69-76. Click to see full–text: http://dialoguejournal.com/
  • Devitry–Smith, John. “William James Barratt: The First Mormon ‘Down Under,’” BYU Studies 28 (Summer 1988): 53-66. Full text
  • Geddes, Ross. “Before Stakehood: The Mission Years in Brisbane, Australia.” Journal of Mormon History 22 (Fall 1996): 92-119.
  • Greenwood, Alma. “My New Zealand Mission.” Juvenile Instructor 20-21 (March 1885–March 1886): 22–part series.
  • Hawkes, John D. “A History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Australia to 1900.” M.A. thesis, Brigham Young University, 1965. Click to see full–text:
  • http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/MTGM/id/13976
  • Hunt, Brian W. “History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in New Zealand.” M.A. thesis, Brigham Young University, 1971. Click to see full-text: http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/MTGM/id/14005
  • Hunt, Brian W. Zion in New Zealand: A History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in New Zealand, 1854–1977. Temple View, New Zealand: Church College of New Zealand, 1977. Publishing of his master’s thesis.
  • Newton, Marjorie. “The Gathering of the Australian Saints in in the 1850s.” BYU Studies 27 (Spring 1987): 67-78. Full text
  • Newton, Marjorie “Mormonism in New Zealand: A Historical Appraisal.” Ph.D. thesis, University of Sydney, 1998.
  • Newton, Marjorie. “Pioneering the Gospel in Australia.” Ensign (October 1986): 32-41. Click to see full–text: http://library.lds.org/nxt/gateway.dll?f=templates$fn=default.htm
  • Newton, Marjorie. “Southern Cross Saints: The Mormon Church in Australia.” M.S. thesis, University of Sydney, 1987. Published later as:
  • Newton, Marjorie. Southern Cross Saints: The Mormons in Australia. Mormons in the Pacific Series. Laie: The Institute for Polynesian Studies, 1991.
  • Potter, Amasa. “Missionary Sketches.” Millennial Star 33 (22 August 1871–3 October 1871): 4Å]part series on Australia.
  • Thacker, Wendy Biesinger. “More Than Bricks and Mortar: An Account of the New Zealand Labour Missionary Programme.” Bachelor of Independent Study thesis, Brigham Young University, 2004.
  • Welch, “Ethnicity Among Auckland Mormons.” M.A. thesis, University of Auckland, 1989.

Footnotes

1 An even more extensive bibliography and guide to sources can be found in David J. Whittaker, “Mormon Missiology: An Introduction and Guide to the Sources,” 466-486. In The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, Edited by Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, and Andrew H. Hedges, (Provo: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, Brigham Young University, 2000). In addition review James B. Allen, Ronald W. Walker, and David J. Whittaker, Studies in Mormon History, 1830–1997: An Indexed Bibliography. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000.