Doctoral Dissertation Research: Women and Men in Nineeth- Century Missionary Practice and Discourse

本项目将社会历史技术应用于一个世纪福音派传教组织--挪威传教协会，以了解那些在世纪下半叶前往马达加斯加的男女如何感知和理解他们之间的关系，以及他们与潜在皈依者之间的关系。 特别令人关切的是，意识形态和权力模式按宗教、性别、种族和阶级划分沿着。 在历史记录允许的情况下，讨论了传教士对土著文化的影响。 但主要的重点是传教士所承担的思想和文化模式如何揭示他们的文化和民族身份，并表征他们的起源社会。

This project applies socio-historical techniques to a 19th century evangelical missionary organization, the Norwegian Missionary Society, to understand how those men and women who traveled to Madagascar in the second half of the century perceived and understood relations among themselves, and relations between themselves and their potential converts. Of particular concern are patterns of ideology and power that divide along lines of religion, gender, race and class. When the historical record permits, the effects of changes introduced by missionaries on the indigenous culture are discussed. But the main emphasis is on how the ideological and cultural models borne by the missionaries reveal their cultural and national identities and characterize their society of origin.