Book Launch | Whatua te Kākahu

We are excited to host the launch of the new book Whatua te Kākahu: Christianity, the Māori World and Colonialism in Aotearoa New Zealand. Edited by Samuel Carpenter, Bradford Haami, and Tony Ballantyne.
📆 December 7th
📍 Laidlaw College
🔗 Please RSVP to attend the book launch: [email protected]
Whatua te Kākahu: Christianity, the Māori World and Colonialism in Aotearoa New Zealand explores the entanglements of Christian missionaries with Māori culture, how Māori interpreted and applied the Bible, the dynamic and complex relationships between Christianity and colonialism, and how these processes continue to shape our religion, politics, and culture today.
Contributing authors are among Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading scholars of religion and Māori society: Bishop Te Kītohi Pikaahu, Hon. Justice Sir Joe Williams, Brian Stanley, Roshan Allpress, Tony Ballantyne, Sarah Penwarden, Samuel Carpenter, Bradford Haami, Richard Boast, Peter Lineham, Geoffrey Troughton, Allan Davidson, John Stenhouse, Ned Fletcher, Dominic O’Sullivan, Alistair Reese, and Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal.