'All for the greater glory of Jesus and the salvation of the immortal souls!': German missionary nuns in colonial Togo and New Guinea, 1897-1960

This thesis, a feminist history of mission in the context of gender, has started on the premise to develop an alternative perspective on the missionary encounter rather than the attempt to enrich existing narratives by adding women. Therefore, it mainly draws on the sources that its principal subjec...

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Main Author: Stornig, Katharina 1980- (Author)
Corporate Author: European University Institute, Department of History and Civilization (Degree granting institution)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Florence European University Institute 2010
In:Year: 2010
Series/Journal:EUI PhD theses
EUI theses
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Togo / Neuguinea / Dienerinnen des Heiligen Geistes / Mission (international law / History 1897-1960
B Germany / Colony / Africa / History / Mission to women / Missionary woman / Dienerinnen des Heiligen Geistes / Mission (international law / Togo / Neuguinea / Dissertation
Further subjects:B Togoland Church history
B Neuguinea
B Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters Missions (New Guinea) History
B Women missionaries (Africa) History
B Academic theses
B Togo
B Nuns (New Guinea) History
B Germany Colonies (Africa)
B Nuns (Togoland) History
B Africa
B German colonies
B History
B Thesis
B Women missionaries
B New Guinea Church history
B Dienerinnen des Heiligen Geistes
B Missions, German (New Guinea) History
B Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters Missions (Togoland) History
B Women missionaries (Togoland) History
B Women missionaries (New Guinea) History
B Mission (international law
B Missions, German (Togoland) History
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Summary:This thesis, a feminist history of mission in the context of gender, has started on the premise to develop an alternative perspective on the missionary encounter rather than the attempt to enrich existing narratives by adding women. Therefore, it mainly draws on the sources that its principal subjects, western missionary nuns, produced. These are mostly correspondence with Europe, travelogues, chronicles, reports and, to a lesser extent, articles, photographs and memoirs, all of which allow us to gain new insights into the nuns' religious and practical worlds and their gendered dimensions as they moved within and across imperial and religious systems. In addition, it uses colonial records and ecclesiastical sources in order to scrutinize the power relations that structured the nuns' missionary engagement and their ambiguous roles as enthusiastic missionaries that took their privileged position as 'white Christians' for granted on the one hand and subordinated to male religious and secular power on the other one. Ultimately, theological perspectives are accorded a prominent place because, to borrow from Andrew Porter, missionaries 'viewed their world first of all with the eye of faith and then through theological lenses'
Item Description:Examining Board: Prof. Giulia Calvi (EUI) - Supervisor; Prof. Steve Smith (EUI); Prof. Edith Saurer (Universität Wien); Prof. Rebekka Habermas (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
Defence date: "12 October 2010."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-371)
Später als Druck erschienen: Göttingen, Bristol, Conn : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013 - Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz ; Bd. 232