RT Book
T1 '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
T2 EUI PhD theses
T2 EUI theses
A1 Stornig, Katharina 1980-
LA English
PP Florence
PB European University Institute
YR 2010
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1749921189
AB 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'
NO Examining Board: Prof. Giulia Calvi (EUI) - Supervisor; Prof. Steve Smith (EUI); Prof. Edith Saurer (Universität Wien); Prof. Rebekka Habermas (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
NO Defence date: "12 October 2010."
NO Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-371)
NO Später als Druck erschienen: Göttingen, Bristol, Conn : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013 - Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz ; Bd. 232
CN 966.8103-G
K1 Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters : Missions : Togoland : History
K1 Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters : Missions : New Guinea : History
K1 Dienerinnen des Heiligen Geistes
K1 Women missionaries
K1 Women missionaries : Africa : History
K1 Nuns : Togoland : History
K1 Nuns : New Guinea : History
K1 Missions, German : Togoland : History
K1 Missions, German : New Guinea : History
K1 Women missionaries : Togoland : History
K1 Women missionaries : New Guinea : History
K1 German colonies
K1 History
K1 Academic theses
K1 Mission
K1 Germany : Colonies : Africa
K1 Togoland : Church history
K1 New Guinea : Church history
K1 Africa
K1 Togo
K1 Neuguinea
K1 Hochschulschrift