TY  - BOOK
AU  - Best,Jeremy
TI  - Heavenly Fatherland: German Missionary Culture and Globalization in the Age of Empire 
T2  - German and European Studies
SN  - 9781487505639
AV  - BV2240.G3 B47 2021eb
U1  - 266/.0234306 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Christianity and politics
KW  - Germany
KW  - Protestant churches
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - Missionaries
KW  - Africa
KW  - Missions, German
KW  - Missions
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Germany
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Age of Empire
KW  - Christianity
KW  - German missionaries
KW  - Protestant
KW  - Tanzania
KW  - colonialism
KW  - ecumenicism
KW  - fatherland
KW  - heaven
KW  - imperialism
KW  - internationalism
KW  - missiology
KW  - missionaries
KW  - nationalism
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1 Preach the Gospel to All Creation Missionswissenschaft and a German Protestant Mission Movement --; 2 Speaking in Tongues Language, Education, and Volkskirchen --; 3 Give … to God the Things That Are God’s Labour and Capital in the Mission Field --; 4 Go In and Take Possession of the Land Anti-Catholicism and the Limits of Protestant Missionary Internationalism --; 5 Tending the Flock Bringing Mission to the Heimat --; 6 Iron Sharpens Iron International Missionary Conferences and Their German Roots --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Motivated by a theology that declared missionary work was independent of secular colonial pursuits, Protestant missionaries from Germany operated in ways that contradict current and prevailing interpretations of nineteenth-century missionary work. As a result of their travels, these missionaries contributed to Germany’s colonial culture. Because of their theology of Christian universalism, they worked against the bigoted racialism and ultra-nationalism of secular German empire-building. Heavenly Fatherland provides a detailed political and cultural analysis of missionaries, mission societies, mission intellectuals, and missionary supporters. Combining case studies from East Africa with studies of the metropole, this book demonstrates that missionaries’ ideas about race and colonialism influenced ordinary Germans’ experience of globalization and colonialism at the same time that the missionaries shaped colonial governance. By bringing together religious and colonial history, the book opens new avenues of inquiry into Christian participation in colonialism. During the Age of Empire, German missionaries promoted an internationalist vision of the modern world that aimed to create a multinational, multiracial "heavenly Fatherland" spread across the globe
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487532444
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487532444
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781487532444/original
ER  -