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Keywords
- Mission history
- colonial history
- history of emotions
- Indigenous history
- emotion
- feelings
- history
About this book
About the authors
Claire McLisky is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Research Fellow at Griffith University in Australia. She has published articles on humanitarianism, settler colonialism and the role of emotions in Christian mission. Her current project compares the emotional economies of early colonial missions to Greenland and Australia.
Daniel Midena is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia, working on the intersection between science, religion and colonialism in the South Pacific. His past research was on the ethnographic activities and natural world view of German missionaries in New Guinea from 1886 until 1930.
Karen VallgÄrda is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is the author of Imperial Childhood and Christian Mission: Education and Emotions in South India and Denmark, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) as well as articles on Christian mission, colonialism, religious conversion, the history of emotions, gender, race, and childhood. Her current project explores the emotional practices of divorce in Denmark.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Emotions and Christian Missions
Book Subtitle: Historical Perspectives
Editors: Claire McLisky, Daniel Midena, Karen VallgÄrda
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-52893-3Published: 14 September 2015
Series ISSN: 2946-5958
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5966
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 266