Three Scandinavian missionary women and the Armenian Genocide
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Alma Johansson
Armenian genocide
Armenian orphans
Armenian refugees
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Author_Svante Lundgren
Bodil Biorn
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Christian mission and healthcare
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faith-based relief
forthcoming
Maria Jacobsen
Scandinavian humanitarianism
women missionary biographies
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- ISBN 9789198994162
- Weight: 521g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 23 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Lund University Press,Sweden
- Publication City/Country: SE
- Product Form: Hardback
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This edited volume tells the story of three Scandinavian women missionaries who dedicated their lives to helping Armenian women and children. They became eyewitnesses to the 1915 Armenian genocide and continued to work among Armenian refugees during the ensuing decades in Lebanon, Syria, Greece and Soviet Armenia. On the basis of these women’s transnational lives and narratives, the book explores humanitarian aid to Armenians from a Scandinavian angle, biographical sources, perspectives and methods serving as points of departure. It also investigates the transnational, religious and gendered dimensions of relief work. The importance and the dilemmas of small-scale translocal projects and humanitarian networks are examined; so are religious motivations and missionary practices in humanitarianism as well as the complex role played by women as victims and agents in wars, encompassing their vulnerability and their ‘caring power’.
Svante Lundgren is a researcher at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at Lund University.
Maria Småberg is a researcher in history and senior lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at Lund University.
