The Missionary, the Catechist and the Hunter: Foucault, Protestantism and Colonialism

Title: The Missionary, the Catechist and the Hunter: Foucault, Protestantism and Colonialism
Creator: Petterson, Christina
Relation: Studies in Critical Research in Religion Series 4
Relation: http://www.brill.com/products/book/missionary-catechist-and-hunter
Publisher: Brill
Resource Type: book
Date: 2014
Description: The Missionary, the Catechist and the Hunter examines the role of Protestantism in the Danish colonization of Greenland and shows how the process of colonization entails a process of subjectification where the identity of indigenous population is transformed. The figure of the hunter, commonly regarded as quintessential Inuit figure is traced back to the efforts of the Greenlandic intelligentsia to distance themselves from the hunting lifestyle by producing an abstract hunter identity in Greenlandic literature.
Subject: religious studies; sociology of religion; social sciences
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1067315
Identifier: uon:18354
Identifier: ISBN:9789004236059
Language: eng