Del 38 i serien Studies in Christian Mission

German Moravian Missionaries in the British Colony of Victoria, Australia, 1848-1908

Influential Strangers

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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Focusing on the six decades that German Moravian missionaries worked in the British colony of Victoria, Australia, this book enriches understanding of colonial politics and the role of the non-British other in manipulating practice and policy in foreign realms. Central to the transnational nature of the book are questions of identity and of how individuals, and the organisations they worked for, can be seen as both colluders and opposers within nation-state borders and politics. It analyses the ways in which the Moravian missionaries navigated competing agendas within the colonial setting, especially those that impacted on their sense of personal vocation, their practices of conversion, and their understandings of the indigenous non-Christian peoples in the settler society of Victoria.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2010-01-11
Mått160 x 240 x 22 mm
Vikt646 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Christian Mission
Antal sidor274
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004179219

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"Jensz schreibt die Geschichte der Herrnhuter Mission in Australien neu und geht in diesem Zusammenhang zurück auf Quellen, die tatsächlich schon lange auf eine <> warten, wie Jensz einen Deutschen Herrnhuter zitiert." Gabriele Richer, in: Interkulturelle Theologie, 1-2 (2013)."The book is a precious contribution to the history of Chrisitan missions to the aborigines in Autralia and to the history of colonization of the Australian continent by Western powers. We can be grateful to the enlightening insights the auhtor offers us in her study, based on well applied methodologies. they allow us a contextualized reading of the history of the Moravian mission in Australia and put the local and foreign agents of that history into a historical perspective, which, finally helps us to integrate better the agents of that historical past with their particular world-views, motivations, preferred strategies and behaviour patterns into the wider perspective and dynamics of the local and global society. A past history, which still has an impact on the present situation and life of Australian society." Paul B. Steffen, SVD, in: Bibliographia Missionaria, Vol. 74 (2010).