Emotions and Christian Missions: Historical Perspectives

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Claire McLisky is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Copenhagen Denmark and Research Fellow at Griffith University in Australia. She has published articles on humanitarianism settler colonialism and the role of emotions in Christian mission. Her current project compares the emotional economies of early colonial missions to Greenland and Australia. Daniel Midena is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Queensland Australia working on the intersection between science religion and colonialism in the South Pacific. His past research was on the ethnographic activities and natural world view of German missionaries in New Guinea from 1886 until 1930.Karen Vallgårda is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Copenhagen Denmark. She is the author of Imperial Childhood and Christian Mission: Education and Emotions in South India and Denmark (Palgrave Macmillan 2015) as well as articles on Christian mission colonialism religious conversion the history of emotions gender race and childhood. Her current project explores the emotional practices of divorce in Denmark.