Sisters crossing boundaries : : German missionary nuns in Colonial Togo and New Guinea, 1897-1960 / / by Katharina Stornig.

• Superior document: Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz. Abteilung für Abendländische Religionsgeschichte ; volume 232
• Author: Stornig, Katharina.
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz ; Bd. 232.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (418 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The last third of the 19th century witnessed a considerable increase in the active participation of women in the various Christian missions. Katharina Stornig focusses onthe Catholic case, and particularly explores the activities and experiences of German missionary nuns, the so-called Servants of the Holy Spirit,in colonial Togo and New Guinea in the late 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. Introducing the nuns' ambiguous roles as travelers, evangelists, believers, domestic workers, farmers, teachers, and nurses, Stornig highlights the ways in which these women shaped and were shaped b

Table of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Missionary Writing(s); The Servants of the Holy Spirit - Foundation and Consolidation; 1. Traveling Nuns; »Who can describe the Feelings?« - Departure; Out of the Convent: the Passage; Debarkation and the Doubts at Arrival; Mobility and Missionary Life; 2. (Re-)producing religious Structures; Competing Roles - Togo; Adapting Concepts - New Guinea; The Body, Health and institutional Implications; Individual Strategies and striving for congregational Unity; 3. Transforming Space; Creating Catholic Landscape

Women's Convents in colonial Settings»Conquering the Heathen Lands«: the Feast of Corpus Christi; 4. Work hidden by Statistics; Missionary Nursing in colonial Togo; Nursing in the New Guinean Missionary Context; Excursus: Missionary Campaigns and Infanticide; Entangled Concepts: Medical Care, religious Service and social Practice; 5. Refashioning Women, converting Souls; Catholic Girls' Schooling; Dress and »Cultivation«; Missionary Girls ; 6. Sexuality and the religious Politics of Diversity; Embodying Purity; Sister Virginie and the »Veil of Race«; Negotiating Difference; Conclusion

BibliographyArchival Collections; Printed Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; List of Figures; Index ; Back Cover