Autor: Felicity Jensz

What happens when people of different cultural, religious, political and social backgrounds live in close contact with each other? This volume focuses on the encounter between European missionaries …

In der Geschichtswissenschaft werden in jüngster Zeit verstärkt Diskussionen über die methodischen Ansätze von Vergleich und Kulturtransfer geführt. Obwohl die religionsgeschichtliche Forschung …

This book brings together interdisciplinary scholars from history, theology, folklore, ethnology and meteorology to examine how David Cranz’s Historie von Grönland (1765) resonated in various …

Many missionary societies established mission schools in the nineteenth century in the British Empire as a means to convert non-Europeans to Christianity. Although the details, differed in various …

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 mission …

Verschwörungstheoretische und »alternativ-theologische« Deutungen sowie Negationen der Corona-Pandemie sind in Deutschland seit 2020 ungewöhnlich wirkmächtig; im »liberalen Milieu«, das von der …

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, thousands of pupils attended boarding schools in various places across the globe. Their experiences were vastly different, yet they all had in common that t …