Missionary Masculinity, 1870-1930 : The Norwegian Missionaries in South-East Africa.

Cover -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: Missionaries and Masculinities -- The case and the context : Norwegian missionaries in south-east Africa -- Missions and gender -- Masculinities and power -- Masculinities and subjectivity -- Christian masculinity and modernity -- Sources -- Mission magazines -- Mission literature -- Unprinted sources -- Outline -- Part I The Construction of Norwegian Lutheran Missionary Masculinity -- 2 Missionary Self-Making -- Introduction -- The case of Hans Paludan Smith Schreuder -- The self-making spirit of the Norwegian mission movement -- Subjective missionary self-making -- Self-making as a mission strategy and theory -- Conclusion -- 3 Proper Missionary Masculinity -- Introduction -- The case of Christian Oftebro -- 'By word or by plough?': contested theories on mission -- The missionary caught between the spiritual and the secular -- Missionary masculinity: a paradox of modernity? -- Conclusion -- 4 Confessional Missionary Masculinity -- Introduction -- The denominational context of a Norwegian Lutheran mission in south-east Africa -- Denominational disturbances -- A Scandinavian 'free mission' in Durban -- Denominational disturbances at home -- 'Heroic soldiers' and 'faithful sons': re-confessionalisation and re-masculinisation in the NMS -- Conclusion -- 5 Norwegian Missionary Masculinity and 'Other' Zulu Masculinity -- Introduction -- The ambivalent understanding of the Zulu man -- A feminised Lutheran Zulu Church? -- Troublesome traditional Zulu masculinity -- Ideal Christian masculinity -- Dangerous urban black masculinity -- The case of Simon Ndlela -- Recruitment of Zulu men to mission work -- The ordination of Simon Ndlela in 1893 -- The suspension of Simon Ndlela in 1903 -- Conclusion.

6 Missionary Masculinity versus Missionary Femininity -- Introduction -- The missionary and his wife -- The missionary wife: wife or missionary? -- Female assistance in missionary households -- The challenge of professional missionary femininity -- Female evangelists -- Female missionary teachers -- Female medical missionaries -- Conclusion -- Part II Missionary Masculinity between Professionalism and Privacy -- 7 Missionary Men -- Introduction -- The Titlestad men across three generations -- The missionary calling -- The missionary service -- The missionary character: missionary or man? -- Conclusion -- 8 Family Men -- Introduction -- The family man Karl Larsen Titlestad -- The family man Lars Martin Titlestad -- The family man Karl Michael Titlestad -- The missionary home: a man's place -- Conclusion -- 9 Men in the World -- Introduction -- White men in Zululand -- The chief's subordinates -- Colonial landholders -- 'Friends of the Zulus' -- Norwegian men in a British colony -- Missionary men: in the world, but not of the world -- Conclusion -- Concluding Remarks -- Missionary masculinity between self-making and self-denial -- Missionary masculinity between professionalism and privacy -- Missionary masculinity between powerlessness and power -- Appendix: NMS Missionaries in South Africa, 1844-1930 -- Notes -- Unprinted Sources -- Printed Sources -- Bibliography -- Index.

What kind of men were missionaries? What kind of masculinity did they represent, in ideology as well as in practice? Presupposing masculinity to be a cluster of cultural ideas and social practices that change over time and space, and not a stable entity with a natural, inherent meaning, Kristin Fjelde Tjelle seeks to answer such questions.

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