Felicity Jensz
Biographic Data
| ID | 601666 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Felicity Jensz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Felicity |
| FAMILY NAME | Jensz |
| SIGNATURE | JENSZ F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Münster |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3679-4511 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
German Missions in German Colonialism
In Abdulrazak Gurnah’s novels set in German East Africa, German colonialism is portrayed as violent, with administrators, military personnel, plantation overseers, and missionaries all engaging in acts of violence towards East Africans. Of these groups, the figure of the missionary is the most ambivalent, given that Christianity had both protective as well as culturally damaging functions in colonial spaces. This article provides a historical con…
Imperial Reach Through Bible Translations in Nineteenth Century German East Africa
Making Enemies
During the First World War, German and British citizens in British and German colonies in East Africa were placed in internment camps. Men, women and children were separated and transferred over imperial boundaries to keep enemy citizens apart from their erstwhile colonial lives. Amongst the interned were many Protestant missionaries and their families, who had not expected to be affected by the European war and believed themselves above worldly …
“Equipping a Child for Life’s Battles”? Sources and Methods in the History of Boarding Schools
Boarding schools are well-known institutions that have been extensively studied by historians. Yet, there are still many hidden histories associated with this type of schooling. This section presents a range of methods that might fruitfully be applied to under-utilised sources to gain new insights into the history of boarding schools for children outside “mainstream” histories. The introductory article provides an overview of the different ways i…
Konrad, Dagmar
Children and institutions in settler colonial contexts
Children in settler colonial settings engaged with institutions in diverse ways. They were sometimes coerced, benignly encouraged or lured into these engagements and sometimes they actively engaged and shaped the nature of these institutions over their childhood and subsequent adult years. This lead article provides the historiographical, methodical and conceptual framework for the special issue of Settler Colonial Studies on children, institutio…
Global Perspectives on Boarding Schools in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Global Perspectives on Boarding Schools in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
The subjectification of the nineteenth-century maritime spectator
In contrast to shipboard journals of the eighteenth century, which often served the function of providing ‘objective’ information for scientific and political networks, shipboard diaries of the nineteenth century reveal a discursive change in which there is a subjectification of the journey. This subjectification, we argue, is evident in the ways in which fee–paying passengers used such diaries as a way to make sense of their experiences of being…
Missions and religion in Australia
While it was ubiquitous in the nineteenth century, religion has moved to the margins of many academic discourses in the twenty-first century. In the Australian context, it has long been assumed tha
Die Welt in Bildern“
So präsentierte sich das erste Album der Serie Die Welt in Bildern und eines der ersten deutschen Zigarettensammelbilderalben überhaupt, das im Jahr 1927 gedruckt wurde und als Werbemittel für mehrere Firmen der Zigaretten-Industrie diente. 1 Diese Art von Zigarettenwerbung fand in Deutschland ab den späten 1920er Jahren große Resonanz. Nach 1942 wurde die Produktion von Zigarettensammelbildern in Folge von Ressourcenknappheit – verursacht durch …
Miscarriage and Coping in the Mid‐Nineteenth Century
Dear little Henry fell down with his chin on a box, & his tongue hanging: consequently he bit his tongue half through. Polly was in bed, the river was rising, there seemed no chance of crossing the water, so the doctor was sent for. Polly got a shock, & her threatening miscarriage came on.1 The next day at dinnertime, the doctor arrived at the Ebenezer Mission Station in the north-west of the Colony of Victoria, Australia, where Polly and her hus…
Poor heathens', 'Cone-headed natives' and 'Good water
This essay critically reviews the textual archive related to the two German mission stations in the South Australian Lake Eyre basin: the Lutheran Hermannsburg mission at Killalpaninna and the Moravian mission at Kopperamanna. The multiple entanglements of these stations far beyond their missionary activity become evident through examining distinctly religious material, such as mission journals, and secular texts, in German-language newspapers an…
Anthropological Investigation has Very Little Interest for Me
As some of the first people to spend extended amounts of time with Indigenous peoples, missionaries were well placed to provide information to European and colonial audiences on non-European peoples. Moravian missionaries arrived in Australia in the mid-nineteenth century and over the next six decades worked amongst numerous Indigenous groups in the south-eastern part of Australia, in the interior, and in northern Queensland. This paper will trac…
Non-European Teachers in Mission Schools
This dossier focusses on non-European teachers within mission schools in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially in the period of colonial control. These teachers were central to the missionary project and helped to disseminate both Christianity and Western knowledge across the globe. Local teachers, alongside other mission assistants and helpers, also helped translate, transmit, and transform both Western and local forms of knowledge …
Reporting from the Religious Contact Zone
Everywhere at home, everywhere a stranger
Women were an integral, yet often overlooked, aspect of Protestant mission work in the nineteenth century. Married female missionaries were seen as important workers especially as their common gender identification allowed them to more easily communicate with indigenous women than male missionaries were able to. However, the writings of female missionaries did not often reach the broader public as males were the primary official correspondents of…
German Expansionism, Imperial Liberalism and the United States, 1776-1945
The main argument of Jan-Uwe Guettel’s book is that Germany’s imperial liberalism, which began in the mid-nineteenth century, was racist and expansionist, drawing as it did both on examples of westward expansion in the USA and on the discriminating racial politics prevalent in the American South to further the cause of German colonies. The perception of America as a liberal colonial empire was incorporated into German liberal theories from the la…
Native Apostles
Non-Europeans contributed in vital ways to Christian missionary expansion in the non-European world, as linguists, informants for ethnographies, and cultural intermediaries, and as missionaries themselves. Until recently these diverse roles have been generally overlooked within the historiography, yet this has changed through the influence of postcolonial and subaltern studies on secular mission and religious history. The works of scholars such a…
Missions and Media
This edited collection provides one of the most broadly reaching studies of nineteenth-century missionary periodicals through case studies of the ways in which this medium was used by various missionary societies to influence their readership, to conjure support for their missions, to construct images of the foreign 'other', and to help legitimise the missionary endeavour, especially amongst the so-called heathen of colonised lands. The collectio…
The Function of Inaugural Editorials in Missionary Periodicals
During the nineteenth century, over 300 missionary periodicals were established in Britain, along with hundreds in North America, Europe, and the colonial world, yet little has been written about the rationale behind their establishment. From their beginnings as sources of intelligence, periodicals developed into vehicles of influence by the first decades of the nineteenth century, with missionary organizations also using this reduplicated commod…
The Form and Function of Nineteenth-Century Missionary Periodicals
At the 1860 conference on Protestant missions held in Liverpool, a session was dedicated to the use of the reported 200,000 monthly missionary periodicals produced by various societies for encouraging the home support of missionary work. The 125 delegates from more than twenty-five Protestant missionary societies both in Britain and abroad had divergent opinions on the prospective contents and audiences for missionary periodicals. One thing that …
The Publication and Reception of David Cranz's 1767 History of Greenland
Between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, religious books proportionally lost popularity while travel books became more popular. This paper examines a hybrid of these two genres, Protestant missionary monographs, through a detailed analysis of David Cranz's 1767 History of Greenland , including the rationale behind publishing the book; its translation from German into English; how it was used as a political tool to influence British foreig…
Collecting cultures
As proto-ethnologists, missionaries represented an important source of ethnographical material, collecting for many museums and displays. It is contended here that European missions affected the collecting habits of their missionaries through actively encouraging or discouraging collecting on behalf of certain institutions. The motivation behind the endorsement of certain collecting habits and not others was linked to the missionary societies’ pe…
Missionaries and Indigenous Education in the 19th‐Century British Empire. Part I
Missionaries were major providers of education in the colonial world, and in many cases were the initial and exclusive agents of education for Indigenous and non‐European people, whom they hoped could be converted to Christianity through religious schooling. However, by the end of the 19th century many governments in colonial lands were keen to take more active roles in providing secular education for their subjects, which, in turn, engendered te…
The Form and Function of Nineteenth-Century Missionary Periodicals
At the 1860 conference on Protestant missions held in Liverpool, a session was dedicated to the use of the reported 200,000 monthly missionary periodicals produced by various societies for encouraging the home support of missionary work. The 125 delegates from more than twenty-five Protestant missionary societies both in Britain and abroad had divergent opinions on the prospective contents and audiences for missionary periodicals. One thing that …
Non-European Teachers in Mission Schools
This dossier focusses on non-European teachers within mission schools in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially in the period of colonial control. These teachers were central to the missionary project and helped to disseminate both Christianity and Western knowledge across the globe. Local teachers, alongside other mission assistants and helpers, also helped translate, transmit, and transform both Western and local forms of knowledge …
Origins of Missionary Periodicals
The nineteenth century was a boom time for the genre of missionary periodicals. Missionary periodicals were established by religious organizations, societies, and churches for their members, for the general public, for theologians, for women, for children, and for converted non‐Europeans, and their growth reflected the expansion of missionary societies into the non‐European colonial world. Despite the abundance and wide range of these publication…
Miscarriage and Coping in the Mid‐Nineteenth Century
Dear little Henry fell down with his chin on a box, & his tongue hanging: consequently he bit his tongue half through. Polly was in bed, the river was rising, there seemed no chance of crossing the water, so the doctor was sent for. Polly got a shock, & her threatening miscarriage came on.1 The next day at dinnertime, the doctor arrived at the Ebenezer Mission Station in the north-west of the Colony of Victoria, Australia, where Polly and her hus…
Everywhere at home, everywhere a stranger
Women were an integral, yet often overlooked, aspect of Protestant mission work in the nineteenth century. Married female missionaries were seen as important workers especially as their common gender identification allowed them to more easily communicate with indigenous women than male missionaries were able to. However, the writings of female missionaries did not often reach the broader public as males were the primary official correspondents of…
The Function of Inaugural Editorials in Missionary Periodicals
During the nineteenth century, over 300 missionary periodicals were established in Britain, along with hundreds in North America, Europe, and the colonial world, yet little has been written about the rationale behind their establishment. From their beginnings as sources of intelligence, periodicals developed into vehicles of influence by the first decades of the nineteenth century, with missionary organizations also using this reduplicated commod…
Missionaries and Indigenous Education in the 19th‐Century British Empire. Part I
Missionaries were major providers of education in the colonial world, and in many cases were the initial and exclusive agents of education for Indigenous and non‐European people, whom they hoped could be converted to Christianity through religious schooling. However, by the end of the 19th century many governments in colonial lands were keen to take more active roles in providing secular education for their subjects, which, in turn, engendered te…
Missionaries and Indigenous Education in the 19th‐Century British Empire. Part II
Missionaries were major providers of education to Indigenous peoples in the colonial world. They hoped both to convert their pupils to Christianity as well as to ensure that their converts had a Christian environment in which aspects of Western education were taught within the class room. The relationship between missionaries, Governments and Indigenous peoples was, however, often strained as has been demonstrated in Part I of this two‐part artic…
Controlling marriages
This paper argues that not only exclusion from but also inclusion within Christian practices served as forms of punishment for Indigenous people seen to be at odds with the moral practices and sexual codes expected on a mission station. In particular, this paper contends that the arranged marriages of Indigenous females on Moravian mission stations in the Colony of Victoria in the mid-nineteenth century was undertaken by the missionary in charge …
JAS review of books
Penelope Hetherington, Settlers, Servants and Slaves: Aboriginal and European Children in Nineteenth‐Century Western Australia, University of Western Australia Press, 2002, pp 256, pb $34.95, ISBN 1876268735. B W Higman, Domestic Service in Australia, Melbourne University Press, 2002, pp 304, hb $49.95, ISBN 0522850111. Robert Jordan, The Convict Theatres of Early Australia 1788–1840, Currency Press, 2002, pp 366, hb $49.95, ISBN 0958121303. Mimi…
Religious Migration and Political Upheaval
During the evangelical awakening of eighteenth‐century Europe, numerous religious communities were founded in order to create a geographical space in which religious and social identities could be constructed, including several communities of the Moravian Church. This Protestant Episcopal Church was based in Germany, but expanded from the mid‐eighteenth century throughout the colonial world in response to political turmoil. This paper traces the …
German Moravian Missionaries in the British Colony of Victoria, Australia, 1848-1908
Focusing on the six decades that German Moravian missionaries worked in the British colony of Victoria, Australia, this book enriches understanding of colonial politics and the role of the non-British other in manipulating practice and policy in foreign realms. Central to the transnational nature of the book are questions of identity and of how individuals, and the organisations they worked for, can be seen as both colluders and opposers within n…
Controlling marriages
This paper argues that not only exclusion from but also inclusion within Christian practices served as forms of punishment for Indigenous people seen to be at odds with the moral practices and sexual codes expected on a mission station. In particular, this paper contends that the arranged marriages of Indigenous females on Moravian mission stations in the Colony of Victoria in the mid-nineteenth century was undertaken by the missionary in charge …
The Publication and Reception of David Cranz's 1767 History of Greenland
Between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, religious books proportionally lost popularity while travel books became more popular. This paper examines a hybrid of these two genres, Protestant missionary monographs, through a detailed analysis of David Cranz's 1767 History of Greenland , including the rationale behind publishing the book; its translation from German into English; how it was used as a political tool to influence British foreig…
Collecting cultures
As proto-ethnologists, missionaries represented an important source of ethnographical material, collecting for many museums and displays. It is contended here that European missions affected the collecting habits of their missionaries through actively encouraging or discouraging collecting on behalf of certain institutions. The motivation behind the endorsement of certain collecting habits and not others was linked to the missionary societies’ pe…
Missionaries and Indigenous Education in the 19th‐Century British Empire. Part I
Missionaries were major providers of education in the colonial world, and in many cases were the initial and exclusive agents of education for Indigenous and non‐European people, whom they hoped could be converted to Christianity through religious schooling. However, by the end of the 19th century many governments in colonial lands were keen to take more active roles in providing secular education for their subjects, which, in turn, engendered te…
Missionaries and Indigenous Education in the 19th‐Century British Empire. Part II
Missionaries were major providers of education to Indigenous peoples in the colonial world. They hoped both to convert their pupils to Christianity as well as to ensure that their converts had a Christian environment in which aspects of Western education were taught within the class room. The relationship between missionaries, Governments and Indigenous peoples was, however, often strained as has been demonstrated in Part I of this two‐part artic…
Origins of Missionary Periodicals
The nineteenth century was a boom time for the genre of missionary periodicals. Missionary periodicals were established by religious organizations, societies, and churches for their members, for the general public, for theologians, for women, for children, and for converted non‐Europeans, and their growth reflected the expansion of missionary societies into the non‐European colonial world. Despite the abundance and wide range of these publication…
Missions and Media
This edited collection provides one of the most broadly reaching studies of nineteenth-century missionary periodicals through case studies of the ways in which this medium was used by various missionary societies to influence their readership, to conjure support for their missions, to construct images of the foreign 'other', and to help legitimise the missionary endeavour, especially amongst the so-called heathen of colonised lands. The collectio…
The Function of Inaugural Editorials in Missionary Periodicals
During the nineteenth century, over 300 missionary periodicals were established in Britain, along with hundreds in North America, Europe, and the colonial world, yet little has been written about the rationale behind their establishment. From their beginnings as sources of intelligence, periodicals developed into vehicles of influence by the first decades of the nineteenth century, with missionary organizations also using this reduplicated commod…
The Form and Function of Nineteenth-Century Missionary Periodicals
At the 1860 conference on Protestant missions held in Liverpool, a session was dedicated to the use of the reported 200,000 monthly missionary periodicals produced by various societies for encouraging the home support of missionary work. The 125 delegates from more than twenty-five Protestant missionary societies both in Britain and abroad had divergent opinions on the prospective contents and audiences for missionary periodicals. One thing that …
German Expansionism, Imperial Liberalism and the United States, 1776-1945
The main argument of Jan-Uwe Guettel’s book is that Germany’s imperial liberalism, which began in the mid-nineteenth century, was racist and expansionist, drawing as it did both on examples of westward expansion in the USA and on the discriminating racial politics prevalent in the American South to further the cause of German colonies. The perception of America as a liberal colonial empire was incorporated into German liberal theories from the la…
Native Apostles
Non-Europeans contributed in vital ways to Christian missionary expansion in the non-European world, as linguists, informants for ethnographies, and cultural intermediaries, and as missionaries themselves. Until recently these diverse roles have been generally overlooked within the historiography, yet this has changed through the influence of postcolonial and subaltern studies on secular mission and religious history. The works of scholars such a…
Reporting from the Religious Contact Zone
Everywhere at home, everywhere a stranger
Women were an integral, yet often overlooked, aspect of Protestant mission work in the nineteenth century. Married female missionaries were seen as important workers especially as their common gender identification allowed them to more easily communicate with indigenous women than male missionaries were able to. However, the writings of female missionaries did not often reach the broader public as males were the primary official correspondents of…
Non-European Teachers in Mission Schools
This dossier focusses on non-European teachers within mission schools in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially in the period of colonial control. These teachers were central to the missionary project and helped to disseminate both Christianity and Western knowledge across the globe. Local teachers, alongside other mission assistants and helpers, also helped translate, transmit, and transform both Western and local forms of knowledge …
Anthropological Investigation has Very Little Interest for Me
As some of the first people to spend extended amounts of time with Indigenous peoples, missionaries were well placed to provide information to European and colonial audiences on non-European peoples. Moravian missionaries arrived in Australia in the mid-nineteenth century and over the next six decades worked amongst numerous Indigenous groups in the south-eastern part of Australia, in the interior, and in northern Queensland. This paper will trac…
Poor heathens', 'Cone-headed natives' and 'Good water
This essay critically reviews the textual archive related to the two German mission stations in the South Australian Lake Eyre basin: the Lutheran Hermannsburg mission at Killalpaninna and the Moravian mission at Kopperamanna. The multiple entanglements of these stations far beyond their missionary activity become evident through examining distinctly religious material, such as mission journals, and secular texts, in German-language newspapers an…
Die Welt in Bildern“
So präsentierte sich das erste Album der Serie Die Welt in Bildern und eines der ersten deutschen Zigarettensammelbilderalben überhaupt, das im Jahr 1927 gedruckt wurde und als Werbemittel für mehrere Firmen der Zigaretten-Industrie diente. 1 Diese Art von Zigarettenwerbung fand in Deutschland ab den späten 1920er Jahren große Resonanz. Nach 1942 wurde die Produktion von Zigarettensammelbildern in Folge von Ressourcenknappheit – verursacht durch …
Miscarriage and Coping in the Mid‐Nineteenth Century
Dear little Henry fell down with his chin on a box, & his tongue hanging: consequently he bit his tongue half through. Polly was in bed, the river was rising, there seemed no chance of crossing the water, so the doctor was sent for. Polly got a shock, & her threatening miscarriage came on.1 The next day at dinnertime, the doctor arrived at the Ebenezer Mission Station in the north-west of the Colony of Victoria, Australia, where Polly and her hus…
Missions and religion in Australia
While it was ubiquitous in the nineteenth century, religion has moved to the margins of many academic discourses in the twenty-first century. In the Australian context, it has long been assumed tha
Global Perspectives on Boarding Schools in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Global Perspectives on Boarding Schools in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
The subjectification of the nineteenth-century maritime spectator
In contrast to shipboard journals of the eighteenth century, which often served the function of providing ‘objective’ information for scientific and political networks, shipboard diaries of the nineteenth century reveal a discursive change in which there is a subjectification of the journey. This subjectification, we argue, is evident in the ways in which fee–paying passengers used such diaries as a way to make sense of their experiences of being…
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