Conversion To Christianity In The Nineteenth Century Narratives Of Religious Change And Gender In A World In Motion

Download or read book Conversion to Christianity in the Nineteenth Century Narratives of Religious Change and Gender in a World in Motion written by Kirsten Ruther and published by Lund Humphries Publishers. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing an important social and political issue which is still much debated today, this volume explores the connections between religious conversions and gendered identity against the backdrop of a world undergoing significant social transformations. Adopting a collaborative approach to their research, the authors explore the connections and differences in conversion experiences, tracing the local and regional rootedness of individual conversions as reflected in conversion narratives in three different locations: Germany and German missions in South Africa and colonial Australia, at a time of massive social changes in the 1860s.