The Missionary, the Catechist and the Hunter

Foucault, Protestantism and Colonialism
XII, 212 Pp., Index Auflage
ISBN: 978-90-04-23605-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Research on Religion

The Missionary, the Catechist and the Hunter examines the role of Protestantism in the Danish colonization of Greenland and shows how the process of colonization entails a process of subjectification where the identity of indigenous population is transformed.

The figure of the hunter, commonly regarded as quintessential Inuit figure is traced back to the efforts of the Greenlandic intelligentsia to distance themselves from the hunting lifestyle by producing an abstract hunter identity in Greenlandic literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Petterson, Christina

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Christina Petterson, Ph.D. (2011), Macquarie University, Sydney is Research Associate at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She works in various fields, such as biblical studies, early European history and colonial history.