| Description |
1 online resource (169 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on the Authors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Religious Conversions: State of the Art; Conversion Narratives and Gender in Europe, Australia and South Africa; Entangled Histories; The Mid-Nineteenth Century; The Structure of the Book; 1 Conversion Narratives in a European Setting: Writing About Conversion to Catholicism in Erfurt; Introduction; The Regional and Temporal Situatedness of Nineteenth-Century Conversion Narratives; The Setting |
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The Example of a Family Conversion: The Conversion of the Volk Family in 1855/1856The Concept of Person, Family and Gender in Wilhelm Gustav Werner Volkâ#x80;#x99;s Self-Representation (1804â#x80;#x93;1869); Conclusions; 2 Gendered Conversions: Wotjobaluk Men and Women in Colonial Victoria, Australia; Introduction; The Setting: Wotjobaluk People and the Moravian Mission Enterprise; Mission Journals as Sources; The Making of a Male Convert â#x80;#x93; Nathanel Pepper and his Relatives; Negotiating Male Hierarchies and Status |
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Aboriginal Women, Gendered Power and Mission Control: Rachel Pepper, Louise Arbuckle and Rebecca PepperSilenced Religious Authority and Mission Patronage of Aboriginal Women; Conclusions; 3 Conversion and Religious Change in the Pedi Kingdom, South Africa: A World in Motion, at Home and Abroad; Introduction; The Setting; The Lebensbilder Collection; Conversion and Kinship in the Families and Worlds of Jan Mafadi and Ruth Mampatshe; Baptism, Prayer and Medicine; Gaining Respectability in the Metropole by Supporting African Conversion; Conclusions; 4 Reflections |
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Reflections in the Context of Thinking About Post-National and Post-Colonial HistoriesUpheaval, Change and Interdependencies in the 1850s and 1860s; Textual Representations of Conversion and Religious Change; Gendered Conversion in the Context of Changing Power Relations; Conversion and Agency; Outlook; Archival Sources and Bibliography |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Missions, German-Australia-History-19th century
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Missions-Germany-History-19th century
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Schaser, Angelika
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| ISBN |
9781317130741 |
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131713074X |
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