Journal article
"A Hook Fast in His Heart": Emotion and "True Christian Knowledge" in Disputes over Conversion between Lutheran and Moravian Missionaries in Early Colonial Greenland
Journal of religious history, Vol.39(4), pp.575-594
12/2015
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Abstract
This article explores the role of emotion in Christian conversion for Lutheran and Moravian missionaries to early colonial Greenland. As self-appointed agents of emotional change, both Lutherans and Moravians attempted to transform the emotional worlds of Indigenous peoples in Greenland, before, during and after their conversion to Christianity, and in some senses they can be said to have been successful. Yet their control over Indigenous emotional expression was never complete, and differences between the two denominations could, at times, be used by Greenlanders to assert their own political, spiritual, and emotional agency.
Details
- Title
- "A Hook Fast in His Heart": Emotion and "True Christian Knowledge" in Disputes over Conversion between Lutheran and Moravian Missionaries in Early Colonial Greenland
- Creators
- Claire McLisky - University of Copenhagen
- Publication Details
- Journal of religious history, Vol.39(4), pp.575-594
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 20
- Identifiers
- 991013173784602368
- Copyright
- © 2015 Religious History Association.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article