Heavenly Fatherland
German Missionary Culture and Globalization in the Age of Empire
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2021
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-0563-9 (ISBN)
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-0563-9 (ISBN)
A history of German Protestant missionaries, Heavenly Fatherland investigates the theological, cultural, and political activities of missionaries and their allies in Germany and the German colonial empire before World War I.
Motivated by a theology that declared missionary work was independent of secular colonial pursuits, Protestant missionaries from Germany operated in ways that contradict current and prevailing interpretations of nineteenth-century missionary work. As a result of their travels, these missionaries contributed to Germany’s colonial culture. Because of their theology of Christian universalism, they worked against the bigoted racialism and ultra-nationalism of secular German empire-building. Heavenly Fatherland provides a detailed political and cultural analysis of missionaries, mission societies, mission intellectuals, and missionary supporters.
Combining case studies from East Africa with studies of the metropole, this book demonstrates that missionaries’ ideas about race and colonialism influenced ordinary Germans’ experience of globalization and colonialism at the same time that the missionaries shaped colonial governance. By bringing together religious and colonial history, the book opens new avenues of inquiry into Christian participation in colonialism. During the Age of Empire, German missionaries promoted an internationalist vision of the modern world that aimed to create a multinational, multiracial "heavenly Fatherland" spread across the globe.
Motivated by a theology that declared missionary work was independent of secular colonial pursuits, Protestant missionaries from Germany operated in ways that contradict current and prevailing interpretations of nineteenth-century missionary work. As a result of their travels, these missionaries contributed to Germany’s colonial culture. Because of their theology of Christian universalism, they worked against the bigoted racialism and ultra-nationalism of secular German empire-building. Heavenly Fatherland provides a detailed political and cultural analysis of missionaries, mission societies, mission intellectuals, and missionary supporters.
Combining case studies from East Africa with studies of the metropole, this book demonstrates that missionaries’ ideas about race and colonialism influenced ordinary Germans’ experience of globalization and colonialism at the same time that the missionaries shaped colonial governance. By bringing together religious and colonial history, the book opens new avenues of inquiry into Christian participation in colonialism. During the Age of Empire, German missionaries promoted an internationalist vision of the modern world that aimed to create a multinational, multiracial "heavenly Fatherland" spread across the globe.
Jeremy Best is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Iowa State University of Science and Technology.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Preach the Gospel to All Creation: Missionswissenschaft and a German Protestant Mission
2. Speaking in Tongues: Language, Education, and Volkskirchen
3. Give... to God the Things That Are God’s: Labour and Capital in the Mission Field
4. Go In and Take Possession of the Land: Anti-Catholicism and the Limits of Protestant Missionary Internationalism
5. Tending the Flock: Bringing Mission to the Heimat
6. Iron Sharpens Iron: International Missionary Conferences and Their German Roots
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | German and European Studies |
| Zusatzinfo | 5 b&w illustrations, 4 b&w maps |
| Verlagsort | Toronto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 159 x 236 mm |
| Gewicht | 660 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4875-0563-9 / 1487505639 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-0563-9 / 9781487505639 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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