Missionary masculinity, 1870-1930 : the Norwegian missionaries in South-East Africa /

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 Fjel...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fjelde Tjelle, Kristin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Colección:Genders and sexualities in history
Temas:
Norske misjonsselskap > History > 19th century.
Norske misjonsselskap > History > 20th century.
Norske misjonsselskap
1800-1999
Missions, Norwegian > Africa, Southern.
Missionaries > Africa, Southern > History > 19th century.
Missionaries > Africa, Southern > History > 20th century.
Missionaries > Africa, Southern > Psychology.
Masculinity > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Missions norvégiennes > Afrique australe.
Missionnaires > Afrique australe > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Missionnaires > Afrique australe > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Missionnaires > Afrique australe > Psychologie.
Social & cultural history > c 1800 to c 1900 > 20th century.
Christian mission & evangelism > c 1800 to c 1900 > 20th century.
Gender studies: men > c 1800 to c 1900 > 20th century.
History.
Missions, Norwegian
Masculinity > Religious aspects > Christianity
Missionaries
Missionaries > Psychology
Southern Africa
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: Missionaries and Masculinities; The case and the context : Norwegian missionaries in south-east Africa ; Missions and gender ; Masculinities and power ; Masculinities and subjectivity ; Christian masculinity and modernity ; Sources.
  • Mission magazines Mission literature ; Unprinted sources ; Outline ; Part I The Construction of Norwegian Lutheran Missionary Masculinity ; 2 Missionary Self-Making; Introduction ; The case of Hans Paludan Smith Schreuder ; The self-making spirit of the Norwegian mission movement.
  • Subjective missionary self-making Self-making as a mission strategy and theory ; Conclusion ; 3 Proper Missionary Masculinity; Introduction ; The case of Christian Oftebro ; 'By word or by plough?': contested theories on mission ; The missionary caught between the spiritual and the secular.
  • Missionary masculinity: a paradox of modernity? Conclusion ; 4 Confessional Missionary Masculinity; Introduction ; The denominational context of a Norwegian Lutheran mission in south-east Africa ; Denominational disturbances ; A Scandinavian 'free mission' in Durban ; Denominational disturbances at home.
  • 'Heroic soldiers' and 'faithful sons': re-confessionalisation and re-masculinisation in the NMS Conclusion ; 5 Norwegian Missionary Masculinity and 'Other' Zulu Masculinity; Introduction ; The ambivalent understanding of the Zulu man ; A feminised Lutheran Zulu Church? ; Troublesome traditional Zulu masculinity.

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