Stornig Sisters Crossing Boundaries

German Missionary Nuns in Colonial Togo and New Guinea, 1897–1960
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-647-10129-3
Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band Band 232, 413 Seiten

Reihe: Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz

The last third of the 19th century witnessed a considerable increase in the active participation of women in the various Christian missions. Katharina Stornig focusses onthe Catholic case, and particularly explores the activities and experiences of German missionary nuns, the so-called Servants of the Holy Spirit,in colonial Togo and New Guinea in the late 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. Introducing the nuns' ambiguous roles as travelers, evangelists, believers, domestic workers, farmers, teachers, and nurses, Stornig highlights the ways in which these women shaped and were shaped by the missionary encounter and how they affected colonial societies more generally. Privileging the sources produced by nuns (i.e. letters, chronicles and reports) and emphasizing their activities, Sisters Crossing Boundaries profoundly challenges the frequent depiction of women and particularly nuns as the largely passive observers of the missionizing and colonizing activities of men. Stornig does not stop at adding women to the existing historical narrative of mission in Togo and New Guinea, but presents the hopes and strategies that German nuns related to the imagination and practice of empire. She also discusses the effects of boundary-crossing, both real and imagined, in the context of religion, gender and race.

Dr. Katharina Stornig ist Juniorprofessorin für Kulturgeschichte am International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) und Fachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stornig, Katharina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover
;1
2;Title Page
;4
3;Copyright
;5
4;Table of Contents
;6
5;Body
;8
6;Acknowledgments;8
7;Introduction;10
7.1;Missionary Writing(s);28
7.2;The Servants of the Holy Spirit – Foundation and Consolidation;35
8;1. Traveling Nuns;48
8.1;»Who can describe the Feelings?« – Departure;55
8.2;Out of the Convent: the Passage;68
8.3;Debarkation and the Doubts at Arrival;84
8.4;Mobility and Missionary Life;91
9;2. (Re-)producing religious Structures;106
9.1;Competing Roles – Togo;113
9.2;Adapting Concepts – New Guinea;130
9.3;The Body, Health and institutional Implications;150
9.4;Individual Strategies and striving for congregational Unity;162
10;3. Transforming Space;166
10.1;Creating Catholic Landscape;173
10.2;Women’s Convents in colonial Settings;186
10.3;»Conquering the Heathen Lands«: the Feast of Corpus Christi;217
11;4. Work hidden by Statistics;228
11.1;Missionary Nursing in colonial Togo;232
11.2;Nursing in the New Guinean Missionary Context;245
11.3;Excursus: Missionary Campaigns and Infanticide;259
11.4;Entangled Concepts: Medical Care, religious Service and social Practice;272
12;5. Refashioning Women, converting Souls;278
12.1;Catholic Girls’ Schooling;283
12.2;Dress and »Cultivation«;304
12.3;Missionary Girls ;324
13;6. Sexuality and the religious Politics of Diversity;342
13.1;Embodying Purity;352
13.2;Sister Virginie and the »Veil of Race«;363
13.3;Negotiating Difference;374
14;Conclusion;382
15;Bibliography;392
15.1;Archival Collections;392
15.2;Printed Primary Sources;395
15.3;Secondary Sources;396
16;List of Figures;408
17;Index ;410
18;Back Cover
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