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We wish to bring together people studying nineteenth century missionary periodicals from both the Catholic and Protestant perspectives in order to reveal political and national discourses running through such periodicals as well as how the relationship between religion and politics was presented within these periodicals. The nineteenth century saw the birth of many missionary periodicals as tools which missionary societies used to broadly promote their work of 'civilizing and Christianizing' the non-Christian 'other.' Missionary periodicals were established to cater for specific audiences such as children, youth, women, church members, indigenous converts, and potential European sponsors of mission. Replete within these periodicals were normative European notions of ‘civilization,’ as well as political discourses, albeit often implicit, pertaining to the colonial or nation state. This proposed publication and associated workshop will focus upon missionary periodicals in order to elucidate the entangled nature of the missionary endeavor within colonial and European politics.
We are currently inviting abstracts of up to 300 words to be submitted by April 30, 2010, for a proposed edited volume and an associated workshop at this stage planned for December 2 and 3, 2010, in Münster, Germany. We are interested in the form and function of both the political arguments within the missionary periodicals as well as the form and function of the missionary periodicals themselves. Although the language of publication and the workshop will be English, and although we are very interested in receiving proposals that focus upon the British experience, we strongly encourage contributions that deal with non-British missionary organizations, as well as those that focus upon non-British colonial spaces. We are concentrating upon the nineteenth century, however, we will also consider contributions that examine the role of missionary publications in the early twentieth century.
Please send a PDF with a 300 word proposal to both organizers by email, together with a short academic CV and list of publications no later than 30 April, 2010.
Organizers:
Dr Felicity Jensz, felicity.jensz@uni-muenster.de
Hanna Acke, hanna.acke@uni-muenster.de
Cluster of Excellence: Religion and Politics in the Cultures of Pre-Modern and Modern Period
University of Muenster
Johannisstrasse 1-4
D-48143 Muenster
Germany
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