Emotions and Christian Missions

Historical Perspectives
2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-52893-3
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions

This book explores the ways in which emotions were conceptualised and practised in Christian mission contexts from the 17th-20th centuries. The authors show how emotional practices such as prayer, tears, and Methodist 'shouting', and feelings such as pity, joy and frustration, shaped relationships between missionaries and prospective converts.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

McLisky, Claire

Midena, Daniel

Vallgårda, Karen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Emotion, Motivation, Handlung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Claire McLisky is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Research Fellow at Griffith University in Australia. She has published articles on humanitarianism, settler colonialism and the role of emotions in Christian mission. Her current project compares the emotional economies of early colonial missions to Greenland and Australia.

Daniel Midena is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia, working on the intersection between science, religion and colonialism in the South Pacific. His past research was on the ethnographic activities and natural world view of German missionaries in New Guinea from 1886 until 1930.

Karen Vallgårda is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is the author of Imperial Childhood and Christian Mission: Education and Emotions in South India and Denmark, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) as well as articles on Christian mission, colonialism, religious conversion, the history of emotions, gender, race, and childhood. Her current project explores the emotional practices of divorce in Denmark.