Belonging in the Land: Land, Landscape, and Image in Southern African Missionary Encounters ca. 1840–1915
To choose a missionary life is to become a stranger at home and abroad, whilst at the same time attempting to construct new networks of belonging. Missionaries have at times identified profoundly with the “foreign,” through economic and political solidarity, or linguistic and cultural immersion, but...
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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
| Verificar disponibilidade: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Publicado em: |
2018
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Mission studies
Ano: 2018, Volume: 35, Número: 1, Páginas: 31-56 |
| (Cadeias de) Palavra- chave padrão: | B
Südafrika
/ Missão
/ Paisagem
/ Identidade
/ História 1840-1915
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| Classificações IxTheo: | KAH Idade Moderna KBN África subsaariana RJ Missão |
| Outras palavras-chave: | B
Missão
Africa
Victorian
visual culture
landscape
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| Acesso em linha: |
Presumably Free Access Volltext (Publisher) |
| Resumo: | To choose a missionary life is to become a stranger at home and abroad, whilst at the same time attempting to construct new networks of belonging. Missionaries have at times identified profoundly with the “foreign,” through economic and political solidarity, or linguistic and cultural immersion, but mission conversely necessitates the attempt to draw the foreign Other into the sphere of Christian fraternal belonging. This paper employs primary textual and visual sources to explore the complex theme of missionary identity and belonging through the lens of landscape. Landscape and its images influenced and were utilized by missionaries, functioning as tokens of belonging, interpretative tools, and sites of territorial possession for example through burial. For indigenous peoples, missionary images of place could also betoken otherness, and conflict with alternative expressions of rooted belonging, for instance in the use of earth as part of the physical substance of indigenous religious art. |
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| Descrição Física: | Online-Ressource |
| ISSN: | 1573-3831 |
| Obras secundárias: | In: Mission studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341546 |
