Jensz / Acke Missions and Media

The Politics of Missionary Periodicals in the Long Nineteenth Century
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-515-10452-4
Verlag: Franz Steiner
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Deutsch, Englisch, Band Band 20, 263 Seiten, E-Book-Text

Reihe: Missionsgeschichtliches Archiv.

This edited collection provides one of the most broadly reaching studies of nineteenth-century missionary periodicals through case studies of the ways in which this medium was used by various missionary societies to influence their readership, to conjure support for their missions, to construct images of the foreign 'other', and to help legitimise the missionary endeavour, especially amongst the so-called heathen of colonised lands. The collection demonstrates how politics affected the content of missionary periodicals, the role of censorship, and how missionary organisations promoted and disseminated their periodicals.

The tightly focussed theme of the e-book allows a range of comparisons and analogies, which is further complimented by the concluding chapter that provides a theoretical analysis of missionary periodicals as a genre. The collection offers important insights into missionary propaganda and in doing so also contributes to the current discourse of missionaries as transnational cultural carriers, with the broad geographical, confessional and denominational range of the articles providing a firm reference for future scholarship in the field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jensz, Felicity

Acke, Hanna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;CONTENTS;6
2;ACKNOWLEDGMENTS;8
3;INTRODUCTION;10
4;EMPIRE, NATION, AND RELIGION IN CANADIAN AND NEW ZEALAND PROTESTANT JUVENILE MISSIONARY PERIODICALS, C. 1890–1930S;20
5;DIVERGING REPORTS OF EURPOEAN POLITICS AND IMPERIAL ASPIRATIONS IN THE PERIODICAL ACCOUNTS AND IN THE MISSIONS-BLATT;40
6;THE ALLGEMEINE MISSIONS-ZEITSCHRIFT AND MISSIONARY NATIONALISM;58
7;NARRATIVES OF CONVERSION IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY GERMAN MISSIONARY PERIODICALS;80
8;THE LETTRES ÉDIFIANTES ET CURIEUSES;98
9;THE LUTHERAN MISSION MAGAZINE ÂÂKESI? IN NEW GUINEA;114
10;THE IMAGE OF ISLAM IN GERMAN MISSIONARY PERIODICALS, 1870-1930;134
11;THE LONDON SOCIETY AND ITS MISSIONS TO THE POLISH JEWS, 1821–1855;152
12;DISCOURSES OF LABOUR, RELIGION AND RACE IN THE AUSTRALASIAN METHODIST MISSIONARY REVIEW;170
13;PROTESTANT MISSIONARY PERIODICALS DEBATE THE BOXER WAR, 1900–1901;188
14;SWEDISH MEDICAL MISSIONARY NARRATIVES IN THE MISSIONSTIDING;206
15;MISSIONARY PERIODICALS AS A GENRE;226
16;LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS;246
17;SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY;250
18;INDEX;256

Über Autor(innen)

Jensz, Felicity
Felicity Jensz, PhD Melbourne in colonial history, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics at the University of Münster.

Areas of expertise: colonial history, missionary history, transnational history, British imperialism.

Acke, Hanna
Hanna Acke, PhD candidate at the Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics at the University of Münster.

Areas of expertise: missionary history, transnational history, discourse analysis, critical lexicography.