Claire McLisky
Biographic Data
| ID | 5625288 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire McLisky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire |
| FAMILY NAME | McLisky |
| SIGNATURE | MCLISKY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-6551-6693 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction to Colonial Christian Missions
This article provides an introduction to the Special Section on Colonial Christian missions and their social and cultural impacts. It surveys the scholarship on colonial Christian missions and argues that there is a need for more work that holds both colonies and metropoles in the same analytical frame, whilst also considering the continuities and discontinuities of mission legacies over time.
The History and Legacy of Popular Narratives about Early Colonial Missions to Greenland and Australia
In this essay I trace the development of popular narratives around early Christian missions to Greenland and Australia and ask what influence these narratives still have on the ways in which Christian mission is represented and understood. In order to do this, I consider the ways in which Christian missionary activity during the first fifty years of colonization in each context was represented at the time and has since been represented in newspap…
From missionary wife to superintendent
This article considers the work of Janet Matthews, an independent and non-denominational Protestant missionary, at the Maloga, Metco and Manunka Missions, all located on the Murray River (the first in New South Wales and the latter two in South Australia). While Maloga was founded and subsequently run as a joint undertaking, Janet was the primary founder and sole director at both Metco and Manunka, making her one of the first women to run an Aust…
A Hook Fast in His Heart”
This article explores the role of emotion in C hristian conversion for L utheran and M oravian missionaries to early colonial G reenland. As self‐appointed agents of emotional change, both L utherans and M oravians attempted to transform the emotional worlds of Indigenous peoples in G reenland, before, during and after their conversion to C hristianity, and in some senses they can be said to have been successful. Yet their control over I ndigenou…
And They'll Know We Are Christians By Our Love”
This article investigates the power, and the politics, of C hristian love on the A ustralian settler‐colonial frontier through the case study of two evangelical missionaries, D aniel and J anet M atthews, during their time at M aloga M ission (a non‐denominational mission to the A boriginal people of the M urray R iver which they founded on its northern banks in 1874). Whether protested in private missives, professed in public tracts, or proclaim…
(En)gendering Faith
Heterosexual love, marriage and reproduction have always occupied an ambivalent place in settler colonies like Australia. While reproduction of the 'right' sort of settlers is imperative to the numerical increase of the colonizing population, indigenous peoples' reproduction is more problematic. This is in distinct contrast to many 'plantation' colonies, where the reproduction of a working or slave class of indigenous peoples is desirable for the…
The Location of Faith
The description and analysis of religious faith, whether as embodied experience or as the subject of academic inquiry, is a troubled undertaking at the best of times. It is particularly fraught in the context of settler-colonial Christian missions to Indigenous peoples, where historical distance and positional power dynamics disrupt our understandings even further. Whether seen as a form of control, a vehicle for new forms of self-expression, or …
Creating White Australia
And They'll Know We Are Christians By Our Love”
This article investigates the power, and the politics, of C hristian love on the A ustralian settler‐colonial frontier through the case study of two evangelical missionaries, D aniel and J anet M atthews, during their time at M aloga M ission (a non‐denominational mission to the A boriginal people of the M urray R iver which they founded on its northern banks in 1874). Whether protested in private missives, professed in public tracts, or proclaim…
Creating White Australia
The Location of Faith
The description and analysis of religious faith, whether as embodied experience or as the subject of academic inquiry, is a troubled undertaking at the best of times. It is particularly fraught in the context of settler-colonial Christian missions to Indigenous peoples, where historical distance and positional power dynamics disrupt our understandings even further. Whether seen as a form of control, a vehicle for new forms of self-expression, or …
(En)gendering Faith
Heterosexual love, marriage and reproduction have always occupied an ambivalent place in settler colonies like Australia. While reproduction of the 'right' sort of settlers is imperative to the numerical increase of the colonizing population, indigenous peoples' reproduction is more problematic. This is in distinct contrast to many 'plantation' colonies, where the reproduction of a working or slave class of indigenous peoples is desirable for the…
And They'll Know We Are Christians By Our Love”
This article investigates the power, and the politics, of C hristian love on the A ustralian settler‐colonial frontier through the case study of two evangelical missionaries, D aniel and J anet M atthews, during their time at M aloga M ission (a non‐denominational mission to the A boriginal people of the M urray R iver which they founded on its northern banks in 1874). Whether protested in private missives, professed in public tracts, or proclaim…
From missionary wife to superintendent
This article considers the work of Janet Matthews, an independent and non-denominational Protestant missionary, at the Maloga, Metco and Manunka Missions, all located on the Murray River (the first in New South Wales and the latter two in South Australia). While Maloga was founded and subsequently run as a joint undertaking, Janet was the primary founder and sole director at both Metco and Manunka, making her one of the first women to run an Aust…
A Hook Fast in His Heart”
This article explores the role of emotion in C hristian conversion for L utheran and M oravian missionaries to early colonial G reenland. As self‐appointed agents of emotional change, both L utherans and M oravians attempted to transform the emotional worlds of Indigenous peoples in G reenland, before, during and after their conversion to C hristianity, and in some senses they can be said to have been successful. Yet their control over I ndigenou…
Introduction to Colonial Christian Missions
This article provides an introduction to the Special Section on Colonial Christian missions and their social and cultural impacts. It surveys the scholarship on colonial Christian missions and argues that there is a need for more work that holds both colonies and metropoles in the same analytical frame, whilst also considering the continuities and discontinuities of mission legacies over time.
The History and Legacy of Popular Narratives about Early Colonial Missions to Greenland and Australia
In this essay I trace the development of popular narratives around early Christian missions to Greenland and Australia and ask what influence these narratives still have on the ways in which Christian mission is represented and understood. In order to do this, I consider the ways in which Christian missionary activity during the first fifty years of colonization in each context was represented at the time and has since been represented in newspap…
Colonialism (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Indigenous (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Christian Theology and Mission (3 works)