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In this 5th presentation of a 12-part series titled "Hawaiian Kingdom History: The Kingdom, the Church, the Land", Dr. Ron Williams Jr. shares about the American Protestant "Mission" to the Hawaiian Islands (1820-1863) and several false narratives about the history of the American Protestant Mission and Native Hawaiian Christianity.
Resources from this series: hcucc.org/hawaiian-kingdom-history-series
About the presenter:
Dr. Ronald Williams Jr. holds a doctorate in history from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa with a specialization in Hawaiʻi and Native-language resources. He is a former faculty member of the Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, UH Mānoa and in 2017 was the founding director of the school’s Lāhui Hawaiʻi Research Center. Dr. Williams is also a past president of the 128-year old Hawaiian Historical Society. He currently works as an archivist at the Hawaiʻi State Archives and serves as Hoʻopaʻa Kūʻauhau (Historian) for the grassroots political organization Ka ʻAhahui Hawaiʻi Aloha ʻĀina. Dr. Williams was a contributing author to the 2019 Samuel Manaiākalani Kamakau Book of the Year award-winning publication, Hoʻoulu Hawaiʻi: The Kalākaua Era. He has published in a wide variety of academic and public history venues including the Oxford Encyclopedia of Religion in America, the Hawaiian Journal of History, and Hana Hou! Magazine.
For more information about this series:
hcucc.org/single-post/hawaiian-kingdom-history-series
Hosted by the Justice and Witness Missional Team of the Hawai‘i Conference United Church of Christ, in collaboration with the Association of Hawaiian Evangelical Churches.
The views expressed by presenters and speakers belong to the individuals and do not necessarily represent the Hawai‘i Conference UCC.
In this 5th presentation of a 12-part series titled "Hawaiian Kingdom History: The Kingdom, the Church, the Land", Dr. Ron Williams Jr. shares about the American Protestant "Mission" to the Hawaiian Islands (1820-1863) and several false narratives about the history of the American Protestant Mission and Native Hawaiian Christianity.
Resources from this series: hcucc.org/hawaiian-kingdom-history-series
About the presenter:
Dr. Ronald Williams Jr. holds a doctorate in history from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa with a specialization in Hawaiʻi and Native-language resources. He is a former faculty member of the Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, UH Mānoa and in 2017 was the founding director of the school’s Lāhui Hawaiʻi Research Center. Dr. Williams is also a past president of the 128-year old Hawaiian Historical Society. He currently works as an archivist at the Hawaiʻi State Archives and serves as Hoʻopaʻa Kūʻauhau (Historian) for the grassroots political organization Ka ʻAhahui Hawaiʻi Aloha ʻĀina. Dr. Williams was a contributing author to the 2019 Samuel Manaiākalani Kamakau Book of the Year award-winning publication, Hoʻoulu Hawaiʻi: The Kalākaua Era. He has published in a wide variety of academic and public history venues including the Oxford Encyclopedia of Religion in America, the Hawaiian Journal of History, and Hana Hou! Magazine.
For more information about this series:
hcucc.org/single-post/hawaiian-kingdom-history-series
Hosted by the Justice and Witness Missional Team of the Hawai‘i Conference United Church of Christ, in collaboration with the Association of Hawaiian Evangelical Churches.
The views expressed by presenters and speakers belong to the individuals and do not necessarily represent the Hawai‘i Conference UCC.
