The making of manhood among Swedish missionaries in China and Mongolia, c. 1890-c. 1914 / by Erik Sidenvall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sidenvall, Erik.

Series:

Studies in Christian mission ; v. 36.

Studies in Christian mission, 0924-9389 ; v. 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Missionaries--China--Biography.

Missionaries.

Missionaries--Mongolia--Biography.

Missionaries--Sweden--Biography.

Masculinity--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Masculinity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Over the last thirty years, issues of gender have been creatively explored within the field of mission studies. Whereas the life and work of female missionaries have been fruitfully reflected upon, male gender identity has often been understood as an unchanging category. This book offers a pioneering account of the relationship between missionary work and masculinity. By examining four individual men this study explores how self-making occurred within foreign missions, but also how conceptions of male gender informed missionary work. Changes that occurred in the lives of these men are placed within the broader context of how issues of gender were renegotiated within the contemporary missionary movement.

Contents:

Introduction

The Swedish missionary revival in context

A public missionary and a domestic man : Olof Bingmark, 1875-1900

Extending a male private sphere, Otto Oberg, 1869-1917

The making of a domestic adventurer : Frans August Larson, 1870-1957

Education and the problem of missionary self-making : Alfred Fagerholm, 1871-1923

Masculinising missions : consequences and departures.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-183) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-40095-9

9786612400957

90-474-2754-8

OCLC:

569990340

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004174085.i-192 DOI