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This article investigates the power, and the politics, of Christian love on the Australian settler-colonial frontier through the case study of two evangelical missionaries, Daniel and Janet Matthews, during their time at Maloga Mission (a non-denominational mission to the Aboriginal people of the Murray River which they founded on its northern banks in 1874). Whether protested in private missives, professed in public tracts, or proclaimed to their assembled audiences, Christian love played a vital role in the both the secular justification, and the sacred sanctification, of the Matthews' mission. Yet in practice, the operation of this emotion was complex. Through an exploration of the role of Christian love in the life of Maloga mission and its missionaries, this article will show how the intricacies of its formulation, expression, reception, and reciprocation make this a crucial if often overlooked concept for the study of mission history, and specifically, in this case, the study of nineteenth-century settler-colonial missions.

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1467-9809.12181

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“Your Journal, My Love”: Constructing Personal and Religious Bonds in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Diaries

November 5, 2014, 10:58 a.m., Cynthia Aalders, Allgemein.

Diaries of religious women are often thought of as solely spiritual accounts of their authors' inner lives, but the diary writings of women sometimes had life far beyond their authors and can convey a great deal about the social worlds of eighteenth-century women. This article draws on the manuscript diaries of several women of different denominational commitment — Methodist, Baptist, and Anglican — to analyse the various ways in which the diary was used to establish bonds of friendship and kinship and to construct communal religious identities across generations and distance. These diaries illuminate a range of both intensive and extensive relationships and, in some instances, literary cultures within which diaries were shared, circulated, and reflected on in others' diaries. Diaries were also sometimes used as a form of religious education, so that women used the diary to instruct younger friends and family members in the religious life. The diary was thus used not only as a medium by which to establish individual self-understandings, but was also used by women to locate themselves communally within particular religious cultures.

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1467-9809.12162

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To Rid the Italian Soul of One Dark Blot: Recognising Race in White Christian Religion

November 5, 2014, 10:57 a.m., David F. Evans, Allgemein.

This article describes white Christian missionary uses of racial imagery for assimilating early twentieth-century immigrants into U.S. society. In early twentieth-century America, white Methodist missionaries sought to convert Italian immigrants from so-called “pagans” to “one hundred percent Americans” by distancing them from racial darkness. In their attempt to convert the objects of their evangelism, Methodists syncretised secular marketing and metaphorical images and trained their audiences in a racial conversion narrative. In spite of their effort to combat the racial limitations of perceived Italian darkness, missionaries' use of darkness and light metaphors in conversion narratives reinscribed a racial Manichean dualism in their missionary practices and publications.

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1467-9809.12161

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“And They’ll Know We Are Christians By Our Love”: Exploring the Role of Christian Love on Maloga Mission, 1874–1888

“Your Journal, My Love”: Constructing Personal and Religious Bonds in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Diaries

To Rid the Italian Soul of One Dark Blot: Recognising Race in White Christian Religion

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