Jacqueline Van Gent

Linnaeus’ tea cup: Masculinities, affective networks and Chinese porcelain in 18th-century Sweden

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 23-05-2016

DOI: 10.1080/03468755.2016.1179836

Moravian Memoirs and the Emotional Salience of Conversion Rituals

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Date: 2017

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-44185-6_12

Current Trends in Historical Withcraft Studies

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 12-2011

DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-9809.2011.01144.X

Rethinking savagery

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 22-07-2019

DOI: 10.1177/0952695119843210

Abstract: By the late 18th century, the Moravian mission project had grown into a global enterprise. Moravian missionaries’ personal and emotional engagements with the people they sought to convert impacted not only on their understanding of Christianity, but also caused them to rethink the nature of civilization and humanity in light of their frontier experiences. In this article I discuss the construction of ‘savagery’ in the mission ethnography of C. G. A. Oldendorp (1721–87). Oldendorp’s journey to slave-holding societies in the Danish West Indies, where Moravian missions had been established in the 1730s, and his own experiences of the violence of these societies had such an impact on him that his proto-ethnographic descriptions of all the inhabitants of the Danish West Indies – from slaves to slaveholders – broke with traditional representations of savagery. He suggested two different paths for emotional transformation: one for slaves, and another for slaveholders. His views aligned with those of the later abolitionists, yet he was writing sixty years before those movements first gained public momentum in Great Britain. In many ways, therefore, this early mission ethnography reshaped contemporary understandings of ‘savagery’. I consider how Oldendorp did this in relation to a Moravian theology of the heart and love of Christ, the emerging Scottish Enlightenment philosophy of ‘love of humanity’ and its use in colonial encounters between missionaries and local people, and especially the emotions that were provoked by the extreme violence of the slavery system in this colonial contact zone.

Converted relationships: Re-negotiating family status after religious conversion in the nassau dynasty

Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)

Date: 09-02-2014

DOI: 10.1093/JSH/SHT111

Sarah and her sisters: Letters, emotions, and colonial identities in the early modern Atlantic world

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 09-01-2014

DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-9809.2013.01260.X

Global Protestant Missions and the role of Emotions

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Date: 31-10-2020

DOI: 10.1017/9781108894449.011

The Burden of Love

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 22-05-2015

DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12272

Introduction: Emotions and Conversion

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 20-05-2015

DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12273

Generational Religious Change among the Arrernte at Hermannsburg, Central Australia

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 10-2002

DOI: 10.1080/10314610208596221

Changing Concepts of Embodiment and Illness among the Western Arrernte at Hermannsburg Mission

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 10-2003

DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-9809.2003.00199.X

In the name of the father: conceptualizing Pater Familias in the letters of William the Silent's children.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Date: 2009

DOI: 10.1086/650025

Abstract: For much of their childhood and adult life, the twelve surviving children of William the Silent were separated linguistically and geographically. Many of the children forged important relationships with male primary carers who were not their biological parents. This paper explores the children's correspondence with their biological father William and with paternal figures to understand competing forms of familial authority among William's children. This paper places particular interest on analysis of the gendered negotiation of paternal bonds in the letters of William's sons and daughters, as they established multiple relationships with father figures during their childhood.

Corresponding affections: Emotional exchange among siblings in the Nassau family

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 04-2009

DOI: 10.1177/0363199008330734

Abstract: This article examines the nature of emotional exchange among the siblings who were the children of William the Silent, the leader of the nascent Dutch Republic. Using evidence from extensive familial correspondence, it asks how the language of emotions could constitute forms of power within the family, by analyzing how actions and expressions of emotion were presented, discussed, and interpreted in epistolary form, to whom, and with what intention and impact. The article studies social, geographic, linguistic, and other distinctions between siblings in their use of affective discourses in correspondence and argues that attention to affective language can help to elucidate the agentive force of emotions in both reflecting and informing notions of power within the family.

University Of Western Australia

Location: Australia

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University Of Western Australia

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Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP150103903

Start Date: 2015

End Date: 12-2021

Amount: $270,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0879626

Start Date: 2008

End Date: 12-2011

Amount: $162,673.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

ARC Centres Of Excellence - Grant ID: CE1101011

Start Date: 07-2011

End Date: 12-2018

Amount: $24,250,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP160100078

Start Date: 10-2016

End Date: 06-2023

Amount: $750,192.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP1092615

Start Date: 01-2010

End Date: 01-2015

Amount: $459,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP210300960

Start Date: 07-2022

End Date: 06-2026

Amount: $798,869.00

Funder: Australian Research Council