TY - JOUR
T1 - 'A hook fast in his heart'
T2 - Emotions and 'true Christian knowledge' in Disputes over Conversion between Lutheran and Moravian Missionaries in early colonial Greenland
AU - McLisky, Claire Louise
PY - 2015/12/1
Y1 - 2015/12/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Greenland, history
KW - mission history
KW - Følelseshistorie
U2 - 10.1111/1467-9809.12271
DO - 10.1111/1467-9809.12271
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0022-4227
VL - 39
SP - 575
EP - 594
JO - Journal of Religious History
JF - Journal of Religious History
IS - 4
ER -