Emotions in early mission encounters in colonial Greenland and Australia

Claire Louise McLisky

Emotions in early mission encounters in colonial Greenland and Australia

Claire Louise McLisky

Institut for Engelsk, Germansk og Romansk

Abstract

This chapter uses the concept of affective circuits to analyse the emotional dynamics of Christian mission in two eighteenth-century colonial contexts: Greenland (1721-1736) and Australia (1788-1791). McLisky argues that the first missionaries in each setting—the Lutheran minister Hans Egede and the Anglican chaplain Richard Johnson—aimed to encourage the transfer of particular ‘positive’ emotions between themselves, their indigenous converts and prospective converts, and missionary supporters ‘at home’ in Denmark and England. They did this in the hope that successful emotional transfers would set up affective circuits which would intensify these ‘positive’ emotions in all parties, thereby stimulating support for the mission and strengthening the faith of all involved. Diverse colonial contexts, however, meant that their attempts to foster such circuits had very different outcomes.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Titel	Emotions and Christian mission : Historical perspectives
Redaktører	Claire McLisky, Daniel Midena, Karen Vallgårda
Udgivelsessted	London
Forlag	Palgrave Macmillan
Publikationsdato	2015
Sider	151-178
Kapitel	6
ISBN (Trykt)	9781137528933
Status	Udgivet - 2015

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