The Missionary, The Catechist And The Hunter: Foucault, Protestantism And Colonialism - Studies in Critical Research on Religion, Volume 4

An engaging, well researched examination of the role played by Protestantism in the Danish colonization of Greenland

List of contents

Series Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Previously Published Material

INTRODUCTION
Approaching Christianity and Colonialism

SETTING THE SCENE: THE PRACTICE OF ORTHODOXY IN COLONIAL GREENLAND
Mary Magdalene and Habakuk: A Heresy Takes Place
Racialised and Gendered Heresies

COMPLICATING GOVERNMENTALITY: COLONIALISM, PROTESTANTISM, AND GREENLAND
Pastoral Power and Governmentality
Colonialism and Governmentality: Outlining the Issues

THE LUTHERAN PASTORATE IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
The Protestant Pastorate in Practice
Constructing Lutheran Society in Accordance with Natural Law
Catechism and Family

CATECHISTS IN THE MAKING: LABOUR, WRITING, AND GENDER
Writing, Gender, and Abstraction
The Introduction of Writing in Greenland
Cultivated Estrangement

THE ONTOLOGICAL STATUS OF THE HUNTER OR THE PRODUCTION OF NATURE
The Instruction of 1782 as Racialised Discourse
Race, Class, and Nature
The Discourse on the Hunter

REWRITTEN PASTS AND SCRIPTS FOR THE FUTURE: HEART OF LIGHT
The Colonial Condition of Heart of Light
Nationalising and Allegorising Greenland: National Allegory and the Global Community
Abject Masculinity
Indigenised Politics

CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

About the author

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.

Summary

An engaging, well researched examination of the role played by Protestantism in the Danish colonization of Greenland

Foreword

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Product details

• Authors: Christina Petterson, Petterson Christina
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.10.2017
• EAN: 9781608466450
• ISBN: 978-1-60846-645-0
• Series: Studies in Critical Research o; Studies in Critical Research on Religion; Studies in Critical Research on Religion
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Missions, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Evangelism, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Greenland, Christian mission & evangelism, Christianity, Colonialism & imperialism, History of Religion, Colonialism and imperialism, Religious mission and Religious Conversion