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Author Petterson, Christina, author.

Title The Missionary, the Catechist and the Hunter : Foucault, Protestantism and Colonialism / by Christina Petterson
Published Leiden : BRILL, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (224 pages)
Series Studies in critical research on religion ; VOLUME 4
Studies in critical social sciences. Studies in critical research on religion ; v. 4.
Contents The Missionary, the Catechist and the Hunter; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on Previously Published Material; Introduction; Approaching Christianity and Colonialism; Motivation; Theoretical Framework; Background; Synopsis of Chapters; 1. Setting the Scene: The Practice of Orthodoxy in Colonial Greenland; Mary Magdalene and Habakuk: A Heresy Takes Place; Racialised and Gendered Heresies; Masculinities in the Making; A Matter between Men; In the Manner of Women; 2. Complicating Governmentality: Colonialism, Protestantism, and Greenland
Pastoral Power and GovernmentalityColonialism and Governmentality: Outlining the Issues; 3. The Lutheran Pastorate in Theory and Practice; The Protestant Pastorate in Practice; Constructing Lutheran Society in Accordance with Natural Law; Catechism and Family; 4. Catechists in the Making: Labour, Writing, and Gender; Writing, Gender, and Abstraction; The Introduction of Writing in Greenland; Oral Cultures and Colonial Writing; Recording the Oral Traditions; Cultivated Estrangement; 5. The Ontological Status of the Hunter or The Production of Nature
The Instruction of 1782 as Racialised DiscourseRace, Class, and Nature; The Discourse on the Hunter; 6. Rewritten Pasts and Scripts for the Future: Heart of Light; The Colonial Conditions of Heart of Light; Imagining the Inuit Community; Nationalising and Allegorising Greenland: National Allegory and the Global Community; National Allegory: First Take; Abject Masculinity; National Allegory: Second Take; Indigenised Politics; An Australian Context; Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling; Conclusion; Bibliography; Primary References; Secondary References; Web References; Index
Summary The Missionary, the Catechist and the Hunter traces the colonial history of Indigenous identity by analysing the role of the Protestant missionaries and the ideology of writing in the production of the hunter as the quintessential Inuit figure
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
SUBJECT Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 fast
Subject Missions -- Greenland
Protestant churches -- Missions -- Greenland
Subject (Philosophy)
RELIGION -- Christian Ministry -- Missions.
Missions
Protestant churches -- Missions
Subject (Philosophy)
Mission.
Protestantiska kyrkor.
Subjektivism.
Greenland
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004273160
9004273166