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 and given meaning, Kristin Fjelde Tjelle seeks to
answer such questions.Using case studies of Norwegian Mission
Society members the author argues that missionary masculinity was
the result of a complex dialogue between the ideals of male
'self-making' associated with the late nineteenth century and the
Christian ideal of self-denial. This masculinity was also the
product of the tension between male missionaries' identity as
modern professional breadwinners and their identity as 'pre-modern'
patriarchs whose calling demanded the integration of their private
lives and their public roles as missionaries. Missionary manliness
(or appropriate mission masculinity) supported the upward social
mobility of Norwegian men from fairly humble backgrounds and, more
importantly, gave them power - but power that was always threatened
by the dangers of inappropriate mission masculinity - or
unmanliness.
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