Emotions and Christian missions : historical perspectives /
edited by Claire McLisky, Daniel Midena and Karen Vallgda.
- x, 276 ; 23 cm.
- Palgrave studies in the history of emotions .
- Palgrave studies in the history of emotions. .
Bibliography : pages 251-271.
Faith through feeling: an introduction / Claire McLisky and Karen Vallgda -- Part I. Emotional practices.'What do you mean by prayer?': emotion and devotion in Thomas Wilson's An essay towards an instruction for the Indians (1740) / Laura M. Stevens ; German'shouting Methodists': religious emotion as a transatlantic cultural practice / Monique Scheer ; The ethnomusicology of emotions in the Neuendettelsau Mission to the Papuans / Daniel Midena -- Part II. Emotions in mission encounters. Errant hearts: missionary melancholy and consolation in the Spanish colonial Phillippines / Maria Cecilia Holt ; A complicated pity: emotion, missions and the conversion narrative / Elizabeth Elbourne ; Affective circuits: emotional transfer and Christian mission in early colonial Greenland and Australia / Claire McLisky -- Part IIi. MIssion families and emotional communities. Converting emotions: domesticity and self-sacrifice in female missionary writing / Angharad Eyre ; The evocation of emotions in a Swedish missionary periodical / Hanna Acke ;'I feel that we belong to the one big family': Protestant childhoods, missions and emotions in British world settings, 1870s-1930s / Hugh Morrison ; Emotions, missions and colonial histories: an epilogue / Jacqueline Van Gent.