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Sisters Crossing Boundaries: German Missionary Nuns in Colonial Togo and New Guinea, 1897-1960
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Abstract The last third of the 19th century witnessed a considerable increase in the active participation of women in the various Christian missions. The author focusses onthe Catholic case, and particularly explores the activities and experiences of German missionary nuns, the so-called Servants of the Holy... mehr
The last third of the 19th century witnessed a considerable increase in the active participation of women in the various Christian missions. The author focusses onthe Catholic case, and particularly explores the activities and experiences of German missionary nuns, the so-called Servants of the Holy Spirit,in colonial Togo and New Guinea in the late 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. Introducing the nuns' ambiguous roles as travelers, evangelists, believers, domestic workers, farmers, teachers, and nurses, the author highlights the ways in which these women shaped and were shaped by the missionary encounter and how they affected colonial societies more generally. Privileging the sources produced by nuns (i.e. letters, chronicles and reports) and emphasizing their activities, Sisters Crossing Boundaries profoundly challenges the frequent depiction of women and particularly nuns as the largely passive observers of the missionizing and colonizing activities of men. The author does not stop at adding women to the existing historical narrative of mission in Togo and New Guinea, but presents the hopes and strategies that German nuns related to the imagination and practice of empire. She also discusses the effects of boundary-crossing, both real and imagined, in the context of religion, gender and race.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
20. Jahrhundert; 19. Jahrhundert; Togo; Frau; Gender; katholische Kirche; Missionar; Religion; Papua-Neuguinea; Kolonialismus
Klassifikation
allgemeine Geschichte
Sprache Dokument
Deutsch
Publikationsjahr
2013
Verlag
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Erscheinungsort
Göttingen
Seitenangabe
413 S.
Schriftenreihe
Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz, 232
DOI
https://doi.org/10.13109/9783666101298
ISSN
2197-1048
ISBN
978-3-666-10129-8
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0