Politics within Nineteenth Century Missionary Periodicals

Politics within Nineteenth Century Missionary Periodicals

Veranstalter
Dr Felicity Jensz, Hanna Acke, Exzellenzcluster "Religion und Politik", Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Veranstaltungsort
Johannisstraße 1-4, Room J119, D-48143 Münster
Ort
Münster
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
02.12.2010 - 03.12.2010
Deadline
29.11.2010
Website
Von
Hanna Acke

Numerous evangelical Protestant missionary societies were established throughout the nineteenth century to ‘civilise and Christianise’ the non-European Other, who came to the attention of Europeans through colonial expansion. Protestant missionary societies were also established with the aim of converting Catholics, Muslims and Jews to Christianity. The rise of these missionary organisations resulted in a burgeoning of missionary periodicals that were used as tools for propaganda and fund-raising.

The audiences of missionary periodicals were wide, and varied from children, youth, families, women, church members, and indigenous converts, to potential sponsors of missions. Replete within such periodicals were normative European notions of ‘civilisation,’ as well as political discourses, albeit often implicit, pertaining to the colonial or nation state. Missionary periodicals clearly elucidate the entangled nature of the missionary endeavour within colonial politics, and provide insight into how religious media shaped domestic and international political discourse.

This workshop brings together international scholars working on the relationship between religion and politics within both Protestant and Catholic missionary periodicals. It provides a forum for scholars to exchange ideas on the methodological, theoretical, empirical, and conceptual approaches to the study of nineteenth century missionary periodicals.

Programm

Thursday, December 2, 2010
9.30 am – 10.00 am
Welcome and Introduction

Fashioning the Other
10.00 am – 10.30 am
Dolls as Transmitters of Western Culture and Modernity: Methodist Episcopal Missionary Magazines for Women and Children, 1869-1895
Janet Rice McCoy & Lisa Shemwell, Morehead State University
10.30 am – 11.00 am
Body Politics: Swedish Missionary Discourses on Hygiene
Hanna Acke, Universität Münster

Missionary Nationalism
11.30 am – 12.00 pm
Confessing to an Imperial Mission: Religious Youth Periodicals and the Battle for the Future in Turn-of-the-Century Germany
Jeff Bowersox, University of Mississippi
12.00 pm – 12.30 pm
Reading Boer Sub-imperialism of the 1890s in the Wesleyan Missionary Notices and the Berliner Missionsberichte
Lize Kriel, University of Pretoria

Modes of Nationalism
2.00 pm – 2.30 pm
Science for Mission and Empire: The Allgemeine Missions-Zeitschrift and Missionary Nationalism
Jeremy Best, University of Maryland
2.30 pm – 3.00 pm
Diverging Reports of European Politics and Colonial Aspirations in the Periodical Accounts and Missionsblatt
Felicity Jensz, Universität Münster
3.00 pm – 3.30 pm
Nation, Nationalism and Europe in Early 19th Century Missionary Periodicals: A Comparison of German and English Argumentations
Judith Becker, Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz

Friday, December 3, 2010
Creating the Nation
9.30 am – 10.00 am
Asserting the Mission, Defending the Nation: The transformation of the Lutheran mission Journal Freimund in April 1933
Christine Winter, University of Queensland
10.00 am – 10.30 am
An "Indigenous" Lutheran Mission Periodical in German and Australian Ruled "New Guinea" in the Pacific and Its Entangled Nature
Gabriele Richter, Universität Rostock

Constructing Missionary Politics
11.00 am – 11.30 am
Narrating Redemption: Autobiographies and Biographies of Converts in Late Nineteenth Century German Missionary Periodicals.
Albert Wu, University of California
11.30 am – 12.00 pm
The Lettres édifiantes et curieuses and the Politics of History in Different 19th Century Editions
Helge Wendt, Universität Mannheim

Missionary Discourses
2.00 pm – 2.30 pm
The "Indian Coolie Mission" in Fiji: Discourses of Labour, Religion and Race in the Australasian Methodist Missionary Review
Amelia Bonea, Universität Heidelberg
2.30 pm – 3.00 pm
Martyrdom, Solidarity, and Justification: Debating the Boxer War, 1900-1901
Thoralf Klein, Universität Erfurt / Universität Loughborough

Politics and World Religions
3.30 pm – 4.00 pm
The Gospel and Politics: The London Society and its missions to the Polish Jews, 1848-1855
Agnieszka Jagodzinska, University of Wroclaw
4.00 pm – 4.30 pm
The Image of Islam in Missionary Periodicals (1870-1930)
Armin Owzar, University of San Diego/ Universität Münster
4.30 pm – 5.00 pm
Discussion

Kontakt

Felicity Jensz
Exzellenzcluster "Religion und Politik"
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Johannisstr. 1-4
D-48143 Münster
+49 25183-23368
+49 25183-23340
felicity.jensz@uni-muenster.de


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