Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0771037

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0771037

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Mission texts and the representation of Africa in America 1870-1914. Australia is now firmly linked to America in cultural and political terms. This project helps us to understand how American attitudes to overseas expansion came about in the period when America was expanding its control on its own continent and in the world at large. Explanations of this to date have neglected to examine the role of religious organisations and texts in promoting the ideas of other peoples and cultures which formed America's modern attitude to the world beyond its shores. As religion becomes increasingly recognised as a powerful factor in identity politics this project helps us to understand the roots of this connection and apply the knowledge to our current situation.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 03-2007

End Date: 03-2010

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $117,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Literature Studies Not Elsewhere Classified | Literary Studies | Religion And Society | Postcolonial And Global Cultural Studies |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Religion and society |

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