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Gender and Conversion Narratives in the Nineteenth Century: German Mission at Home and Abroad de Kirsten Rüther

Gender and Conversion Narratives in the Nineteenth Century: German Mission at Home and Abroad

Autor Kirsten Rüther, Angelika Schaser
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 oct 2015
Addressing an important social and political issue which is still much debated today, this volume explores the connections between religious conversions and gendered identity against the backdrop of a world undergoing significant social transformations. Adopting a collaborative approach to their research, the authors explore the connections and differences in conversion experiences, tracing the local and regional rootedness of individual conversions as reflected in conversion narratives in three different locations: Germany and German missions in South Africa and colonial Australia, at a time of massive social changes in the 1860s. Beginning with the representation of religious experiences in so-called conversion narratives, the authors explore the social embeddedness of religious conversions and inquire how people related to their social surroundings, and in particular to gender order and gender practices, before, during and after their conversion. With a concluding reflective essay on comparative methods of history writing and transnational perspectives on conversion, this book offers a fresh perspective on historical debates about religious change, gender and social relations.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472449238
ISBN-10: 1472449231
Pagini: 212
Ilustrații: Includes 8 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction; Conversion narratives in a European setting: writing about conversion to Catholicism in Erfurt; Gendered conversions: Wotjobaluk men and women in colonial Victoria, Australia; Conversion and religious change in the Pedi kingdom, South Africa: a world in motion, at home and abroad; Reflections; Archival sources and bibliography; Index.

Notă biografică

Kirsten Rüther is a professor of History and Societies in Africa at the Department of African Studies of the University of Vienna. Her research interests include issues of Christianisation and colonialism, health and popular culture, and the study of family and kinship. She is currently working on a book on life histories in Africa. Angelika Schaser is Professor for Modern History at the Universität Hamburg. She was a member of the research group ’Self-Narratives in Transcultural Perspective’ at the Freie Universität Berlin, 2004 to 2010. Her research includes projects on nation and gender in the German history of the 19th and 20th centuries as well as on religious conversions, minorities, collective memories, history of historiography, and auto/biographical research. Jacqueline Van Gent is a historian at The University of Western Australia and Chief Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (1100-1800). She has published on Protestant missions, indigenous people and gender in colonial Australia and the early modern world, gender and power in the early modern Nassau-Orange family and Scandinavian early modern cultural history.

Recenzii

"...an interesting and methodically interesting endeavour..." - Martina Gugglberger, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

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Addressing an important social and political issue which is still much debated today, this volume explores the connections between religious conversions and gendered identity against the backdrop of a world undergoing significant social transformations. Adopting a collaborative approach to their research, the authors explore the connections and differences in conversion experiences, tracing the local and regional rootedness of individual conversions as reflected in conversion narratives in three different locations: Germany and German missions in South Africa and colonial Australia, at a time of massive social changes in the 1860s.