{"product_id":"emotions-and-christian-missions-historical-perspectives-palgrave-studies-in-the-history-of-emotions-9781137528933","title":"Emotions and Christian Missions Historical","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the ways in which emotions were conceptualised and practised in Christian mission contexts from the 17th-20th centuries. The authors show how emotional practices such as prayer, tears, and Methodist 'shouting', and feelings such as pity, joy and frustration, shaped relationships between missionaries and prospective converts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents    Faith through Feeling: An Introduction; Claire McLisky and Karen Vallgarda 1. 'What Do You Mean by Prayer?': Emotion and Devotion in Thomas Wilson's Essay Towards an Instruction of the Indians (1740); Laura M. Stevens 2. German 'Shouting Methodists': Religious Emotion as a Transatlantic Cultural Practice; Monique Scheer 3. Neuendettelsau Missionaries, Objectivity and the Ethno-musicological Study of Papuan Emotions; Daniel Midena 4. Errant Hearts: Missionary Melancholy and Consolation in the Spanish Philippines; Maria Cecilia Holt 5. A Complicated Pity: Emotion, Missions and the Conversion Narrative; Elizabeth Elbourne 6. Affective Circuits: Emotional transfer and Christian mission in Early Colonial Greenland and Australia; Claire McLisky 7. Converting Emotions: Domesticity and Self-Sacrifice in Female Missionary Writing; Angharad Eyre 8. The Evocation of Emotions in a Swedish Missionary Periodical; Hanna Acke  9. 'I feel that we belong to the one big family': Protestant Childhoods, Missions and Emotions in British World Settings, 1870s-1930s; Hugh Morrison  Emotions, Missions and Colonial Histories: An Epilogue; Jacqueline Van Gent","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019444027735,"sku":"9781137528933","price":76.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781137528933.jpg?v=1750780290","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/emotions-and-christian-missions-historical-perspectives-palgrave-studies-in-the-history-of-emotions-9781137528933","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}