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Kirsten Rüther

Gender and Conversion Narratives in the Nineteenth Century

German Mission at Home and Abroad

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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. Beginning… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Schaser, Angelika
  • ISBN: 978-1-317-13074-1
  • EAN: 9781317130741
  • Produktnummer: 20176158
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 212 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 2'711 KB

Über den Autor


Kirsten Rÿther 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 Universitÿt Hamburg. She was a member of the research group 'Self-Narratives in Transcultural Perspective' at the Freie Universitÿt 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.

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