Issues Of Gender Race And Class In The Norwegian Missionary Society In Nineteenth Century Norway And Madagascar

Author : Line Nyhagen Predelli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Issues of Gender, Race, and Class in the Norwegian Missionary Society in Nineteenth-century Norway and Madagascar written by Line Nyhagen Predelli and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a focus on missionary women and men in the Norwegian Missionary Society in Madagascar and Norway, this study provides an in-depth examination of how gender relations are negotiated in a religious organization. The time period covered (1860-1910) coincides with colonial efforts of major European states. The book also discusses how aspects of class, race and sexuality must be taken into account in studies of gender relations in the missionary movement. It shows, for example, how marriage propositions and sexual relations between white missionaries and black converts were dealt with by the mission organization in Madagascar. Other topics include the attempts of Norwegian missionary women to impart a form of domesticity to Malagasy girls, their efforts to establish direct links with the broader feminist movement, and the gradual democratization of the mission organization both in Norway and Madagascar.

Author : Kristin Fjelde Tjelle
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137336366
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Missionary Masculinity, 1870-1930 written by Kristin Fjelde Tjelle and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What kind of men were missionaries? What kind of masculinity did they represent, in ideology as well as in practice? Presupposing masculinity to be a cluster of cultural ideas and social practices that change over time and space, and not a stable entity with a natural, inherent meaning, Kristin Fjelde Tjelle seeks to answer such questions.

Author : Kate Allen
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498524818
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Norwegian-American Lutheran Experience in 1950s Japan written by Kate Allen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stepping Up to the Cold War Challenge: The Norwegian-American Lutheran Experience in 1950s Japan describes the events that led to the Evangelical Lutheran Church (ELC), an American Christian denomination, to respond to General MacArthur’s call for missionaries. This Church did not initially respond, but did so in 1949 only after their missionaries had been expelled from China due to the victory of communist forces on the mainland. Because they feared Japan would also succumb to communism in less than ten years, the missionaries evaded ecumenical cooperation and social welfare projects to focus on evangelism and establishing congregations. Many of the ELC missionaries were children and grandchildren of Norwegian immigrants who had settled as farmers on the North American Great Plains. Based on interview transcripts and other primary sources, this book intimately describes the personal struggles of individuals responding to the call to be a missionary, adjusting to life in Japan, learning Japanese, raising a family, and engaging in mission work. As the Cold War threat diminished and independence movements elsewhere were ending colonialism, missionaries were compelled to change methods and attitudes. The 1950s was a time when missionaries went out much in the same manner that they did in the nineteenth century. Through the voices of the missionaries and their Japanese coworkers, the book documents how many of the traditional missionary assumptions begin to be questioned.

Author : Ellen Vea Rosnes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351730797
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Norwegian Mission’s Literacy Work in Colonial and Independent Madagascar written by Ellen Vea Rosnes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering an original historical perspective on literacy work in Africa, this book examines the role of the Norwegian Lutheran mission in Madagascar and sheds light on the motivations that drove colonizing powers’ literacy work. Focusing on both colonial and independent Madagascar, Rosnes examines how literacy practices were facilitated through mission schools and the impact on the reading and writing skills to Malagasy children and youth. Analysing how literacy work influenced identity formation and power relations in the Malagasy society, the author offers new insights into the field of language and education in Africa.

Author : Thomas Anderson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498576060
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reassembling the Strange written by Thomas Anderson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how Westerners understood and processed Madagascar and its environment during the nineteenth century. Madagascar’s unique ecosystem crafted its reputation as a strange place full of unusual species. Westerners, however, often minimized Madagascar’s peculiar features to stress the commonality of its fauna and flora with the world. The attempt to understand the island through science led to a domestication of its environment that created the image of a tame and known world capable of being controlled and used by Western powers. At the heart of the exploration of Madagascar and its transformation in Western eyes from a strange world to a cash crop colony were missionaries and naturalists who relied upon global experiences to master the island by normalizing the peculiar qualities of Madagascar’s environment. This book reveals how the environment played a dominant role in understanding the island and its people, and how current environmental debates have evolved from earlier policies and discussions about the environment.

Author : Karina Hestad Skeie
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004242120
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building God’s Kingdom written by Karina Hestad Skeie and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building God’s Kingdom studies how the encounter with nineteenth century Madagascar influenced the Norwegian Protestant mission. Drawing upon rich Norwegian and Malagasy sources, entangled and multivocal stories are allowed to unfold, revealing the complex dynamics of mission encounters. Tracing Malagasy agency and pursuit of churchly independence in pre-colonial and colonial Madagascar, this study explores the power-struggles between the Malagasy, the missionaries and between the mission in Norway and Madagascar. Through careful attention to context and agency, Karina Hestad Skeie provides new perspectives on the interplay between the local and the global in Christian missions, and on the centrality and restrictions of local agency on mission policy.

Author : Line Nyhagen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137405341
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion, Gender and Citizenship written by Line Nyhagen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do religious women talk about and practise citizenship? How is religion linked to gender and nationality? What are their views on gender equality, women's movements and feminism? Via interviews with Christian and Muslim women in Norway, Spain and the UK, this book explores intersections between religion, citizenship, gender and feminism.

Author : Erik Sidenvall
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004174087
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of Manhood Among Swedish Missionaries in China and Mongolia, C. 1890-c. 1914 written by Erik Sidenvall and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last thirty years, issues of gender have been creatively explored within the field of mission studies. Whereas the life and work of female missionaries have been fruitfully reflected upon, male gender identity has often been understood as an unchanging category. This book offers a pioneering account of the relationship between missionary work and masculinity. By examining four individual men this study explores how self-making occurred within foreign missions, but also how conceptions of male gender informed missionary work. Changes that occurred in the lives of these men are placed within the broader context of how issues of gender were renegotiated within the contemporary missionary movement.

Author : Hilde Nielssen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004202986
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Protestant Missions and Local Encounters in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries written by Hilde Nielssen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes visible an important but neglected aspect of Christian missions: its transnational character. Missionaries considered themselves global actors, yet they operated within a variety of nation-states. The volume demonstrates how processes on a national level are closely linked to larger transnational processes.

Author : Tormod Engelsviken
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1608991105
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mission to the World written by Tormod Engelsviken and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: