Missions and Media

The Politics of Missionary Periodicals in the Long Nineteenth Century

Felicity Jensz, Hanna Acke

• Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9783515104524
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: History Reference
• Index: History

This edited collection provides one of the most broadly reaching studies of nineteenth-century missionary periodicals through case studies of the ways in which this medium was used by various missionary societies to influence their readership, to conjure support for their missions, to construct images of the foreign 'other', and to help legitimise the missionary endeavour, especially amongst the so-called heathen of colonised lands. The collection demonstrates how politics affected the content of missionary periodicals, the role of censorship, and how missionary organisations promoted and disseminated their periodicals.

The tightly focussed theme of the e-book allows a range of comparisons and analogies, which is further complimented by the concluding chapter that provides a theoretical analysis of missionary periodicals as a genre. The collection offers important insights into missionary propaganda and in doing so also contributes to the current discourse of missionaries as transnational cultural carriers, with the broad geographical, confessional and denominational range of the articles providing a firm reference for future scholarship in the field.

Table of contents

• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• EMPIRE, NATION, AND RELIGION IN CANADIAN AND NEW ZEALAND PROTESTANT JUVENILE MISSIONARY PERIODICALS, C. 1890–1930S
• DIVERGING REPORTS OF EURPOEAN POLITICS AND IMPERIAL ASPIRATIONS IN THE PERIODICAL ACCOUNTS AND IN THE MISSIONS-BLATT
• THE ALLGEMEINE MISSIONS-ZEITSCHRIFT AND MISSIONARY NATIONALISM
• NARRATIVES OF CONVERSION IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY GERMAN MISSIONARY PERIODICALS
• THE LETTRES ÉDIFIANTES ET CURIEUSES
• THE LUTHERAN MISSION MAGAZINE ÂÂKESIŊ IN NEW GUINEA
• THE IMAGE OF ISLAM IN GERMAN MISSIONARY PERIODICALS, 1870-1930
• THE LONDON SOCIETY AND ITS MISSIONS TO THE POLISH JEWS, 1821–1855
• DISCOURSES OF LABOUR, RELIGION AND RACE IN THE AUSTRALASIAN METHODIST MISSIONARY REVIEW
• PROTESTANT MISSIONARY PERIODICALS DEBATE THE BOXER WAR, 1900–1901
• SWEDISH MEDICAL MISSIONARY NARRATIVES IN THE MISSIONSTIDING
• MISSIONARY PERIODICALS AS A GENRE
• LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
• SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX