Alcohol, Opium, and the Methodists in Singapore:

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" Alcohol, Opium, and the Methodists in Singapore: "
David W. Scott

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1077470
Doc. No	:	LA121099
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15733831-12341234‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	David W. Scott
Title & Author	:	Alcohol, Opium, and the Methodists in Singapore: [Article] : The Inculturation of a Moral Crusade\ David W. Scott
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Mission Studies
Date	:	2012
Volume/ Issue Number	:	29/2
Page No	:	147–162
Abstract	:	The Methodist Episcopal Church was strongly committed to the temperance movement in nineteenth-century America. This commitment rested on assumptions about the negative impacts of alcohol and was expressed through campaigns for personal moral reform and political prohibition. When Methodist missionaries arrived in Singapore in the late nineteenth century, they encountered a society in which opium was the most commonly abused drug. In this new context, Methodist missionaries adapted their concerns about alcohol and their methods of opposing the liquor trade and applied these concerns and methods to opium and the opium trade instead. This case study raises important questions about the inculturation of morality as an aspect of the missionary enterprise, a topic which is insufficiently addressed in literature on theological inculturation. The Methodist Episcopal Church was strongly committed to the temperance movement in nineteenth-century America. This commitment rested on assumptions about the negative impacts of alcohol and was expressed through campaigns for personal moral reform and political prohibition. When Methodist missionaries arrived in Singapore in the late nineteenth century, they encountered a society in which opium was the most commonly abused drug. In this new context, Methodist missionaries adapted their concerns about alcohol and their methods of opposing the liquor trade and applied these concerns and methods to opium and the opium trade instead. This case study raises important questions about the inculturation of morality as an aspect of the missionary enterprise, a topic which is insufficiently addressed in literature on theological inculturation.
Descriptor	:	inculturation
Descriptor	:	Methodist Episcopal Church
Descriptor	:	missions
Descriptor	:	morality
Descriptor	:	opium
Descriptor	:	Singapore
Descriptor	:	temperance
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15733831-12341234‬