Felicity Jensz

Religious disentanglements in post-colonial Germany

Monograph • coming soon

A manuscript in preparation examining religious disentanglements in post-colonial Germany, to be submitted to Oxford University Press.

Missionaries and modernity: Education in the British Empire, 1830-1910

Monograph • 2022

Many missionary societies established mission schools in the nineteenth century in the British Empire as a means to convert non-Europeans to Christianity. Although the details differed in various colonial contexts, the driving ideology behind mission schools was that Christian morality was highest form of civilisation needed for non-Europeans to be useful members of colonies under British rule. This comprehensive survey of multi-colonial sites over the long time span clearly describes the missionary paradox that to draw in pupils they needed to provide secular education, but that secular education was seen to lead both to a moral crisis and to anti-British sentiments.

Moravian Missionaries in the British Colony of Victoria, Australia, 1848-1908: Strangers in a Strange Land

Monograph • 2010 • Australia

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 nation-state borders and politics. It analyses the ways in which the Moravian missionaries navigated competing agendas within the colonial setting.

The Young Ecumenical Movement under Pressure: Christian Internationalism in War and Post-War Times, c. 1890-1930

Edited Book • 2026

An edited volume examining the ecumenical movement during the turbulent period of war and post-war times from 1890-1930.

Translating Colonialism

Edited Journal Special Issue • 2026

A special issue of Itinerario exploring the relationship between translation and colonialism in imperial contexts.

Koloniale Spuren in Münster und im Münsterland. Erkundungen in der westfälischen Provinz

Edited Book • 2024

An exploration of colonial traces in Münster and the Münsterland region, examining colonial legacies in Westphalia.

Sources and Methods in the History of Boarding Schools

Edited Journal Special Issue • 2024

A specially edited section on sources and methods for researching boarding school history.

Vermächtnisse von David Cranz' 'Historie von Grönland' (1765)

Edited Book • 2024 • Greenland

A German translation and examination of David Cranz's 1765 History of Greenland, part of an innovative AI translation project.

Children and institutions in settler colonial contexts

Edited Journal Special Issue • 2023

A trans-imperial analysis of children and institutions in settler colonial contexts. This article examines how children experienced institutional care in various settler colonial societies across the British Empire.

The Diary of Adolf and Polly Hartmann, 1863-1873

Edited Book • 2023 • Australia

The diary of Adolf and Polly Hartmann from 1863-1873, providing insights into missionary life in Australia.

Global Perspectives on Boarding Schools in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Edited Book • 2022

A comprehensive examination of boarding schools globally during the 19th and 20th centuries.

The Legacies of David Cranz's 'Historie von Grönland' (1765)

Edited Book • 2021 • Greenland

An examination of the lasting legacies of David Cranz's influential History of Greenland from 1765.

Dossier: Non-European Teachers in Mission Schools

Edited Journal Special Issue • 2016

A dossier examining non-European teachers in mission schools across various colonial contexts.

Missions and Media. The Politics of Missionary Periodicals in the long Nineteenth-Century

Edited Book • 2013

An examination of the politics surrounding missionary periodicals in the long nineteenth century.

The Form and Function of Nineteenth-Century Missionary Periodicals

Edited Journal Special Issue • 2013

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.

German and British Bible Societies and the Publication of Bible Translations in Colonial West Africa

Journal Article • 2025 • West Africa

Recent studies in world Christianity have established that the missionary mother-tongue Bibles contributed essentially to the rise of indigenous forms of Christianity and its meteoric growth in Africa. However, these studies hardly give attention to the background processes that advanced missionary Bible translations. Using a case study approach and through a close reading of archival data on two missionary Bible translations in West Africa: the Ga Bible (1854-1866) of the Basel Mission and the Ewe Bible (1858-1913) of the North German Mission, this article reconstructs the multi-step background processes that produced these pioneering translations in the nineteenth to early twentieth centuries.

Translating Colonialism

Journal Article • 2025

An exploration of the relationship between translation practices and colonialism.

The Global Bible and National Identity in the Age of Empires

Journal Article • 2025

An examination of how Bible translations contributed to national identity formation during the age of empires.

Wer schreibt postkoloniale Stadtgeschichte? Eine Zwischenbilanz aus Münster

Journal Article • 2025

An interim assessment of writing post-colonial urban history from the perspective of Münster.

Mapping the Object: Eine Case Study zu außereuropäischen Objekten in kleinen Museen

Journal Article • 2025

A case study on mapping non-European objects in small museums, examining provenance and collection histories.

Imperial Reach through Bible Translations in Nineteenth Century German East Africa

Journal Article • 2025 • East Africa

Informed by an attention to global and transnational entanglements, this article examines the context and process of bible translations from German East Africa at the tail end of German colonial rule in the early twentieth century. Translation is always a process of negotiation and compromise, and through examining the processes behind the translation and publication of the Bible into Kinyiha and Kinyamwezi a number of imperial as well as religious tensions become evident. The publication of the Kinyamwezi translation was undertaken quickly in order fend off Catholic and Islam threats to the Protestant efforts of conversion.

German Missions in German Colonialism. A historical contextualization of Afterlives

Journal Article • 2026

A historical contextualization examining the afterlives of German missions in the context of German colonialism.

Making enemies: British and German Missionary Personnel in East African Internment Camps during WWI

Journal Article • 2025 • East Africa

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 politics. This article examines reports from British and German missionaries, focusing on the narratives of three men interned and deported from East Africa: a German in British East Africa; a British man in German East Africa; and a German in German East Africa.

Papuan Children, Catholic Missionaries, and the Formation of Transimperial Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Europe

Journal Article • 2025

An exploration of Papuan children and Catholic missionaries in the formation of transimperial networks in late nineteenth-century Europe.

Films of Faith and Colonial Fantasy: Postcolonial Religious Memories in interwar Germany

Journal Article • 2024 • Germany

An examination of films depicting faith and colonial fantasy, exploring postcolonial religious memories in interwar Germany. This article analyzes how religious films from the interwar period reflected and shaped colonial imaginations in Germany.

The Moravian Church in the Aftermath of WWI: Global Connections and internal disjunctions

Journal Article • 2024

At the end of July 1919, members of the American, Continental, and British Provinces of the Moravian Church came together for the first time in five years to discuss the state of the church's missions after the end of World War I. The preceding years had resulted in problems in terms of finances, administration, and labor as well as put into question the future of many mission fields. Nationalistic tensions ran high between members of the church, and there was a real concern that the worldwide Moravian Unity would be dissolved. That it did not was in part due to the sustained efforts of many members of the administrative bodies of the church.

Equipping a Child for Life's Battles: Sources and Methods in the History of Boarding Schools

Journal Article • 2024

An examination of sources and methods for researching the history of boarding schools. This article provides guidance on the archival sources available for studying boarding school history and the methodological approaches researchers can employ.

Children and institutions in settler colonial contexts: a trans-imperial perspective

Journal Article • 2023

A trans-imperial analysis of children and institutions in settler colonial contexts. This article examines how children experienced institutional care in various settler colonial societies across the British Empire.

Die Basler Mission und der Erste Weltkrieg: Die Verwendung der Berichte der aus Kamerun deportierten Missionspersonal für die deutsche Kriegspropaganda

Journal Article • 2022 • Cameroon, Switzerland

An examination of the Basel Mission during World War I and how reports from deportees were used for German war propaganda.

Neptune's visit made palatable. Journeys over the line in the nineteenth and twentieth century

Journal Article • 2022

An exploration of maritime journeys and the crossing of the equator in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The subjectification of the nineteenth century maritime spectator: Shipboard diaries as maritime history

Journal Article • 2022

An analysis of shipboard diaries as sources for understanding the nineteenth-century maritime spectator.

Nationalismus in der deutschen Missionswissenschaft der Zwischenweltkriegszeit am Beispiel von Josef Schmidlin und Julius Richter

Journal Article • 2022

An examination of nationalism in German mission scholarship during the interwar period, focusing on Josef Schmidlin and Julius Richter.

Die Welt in Bildern: Zigarettensammelbilder als Fenster zur Ferne

Journal Article • 2020

An examination of cigarette cards as a window to distant lands, exploring colonial imagery in popular culture.

Miscarriage and Coping in the Nineteenth Century: Private Notes from Distant Places

Journal Article • 2020

Silence around miscarriage remains within Western countries despite contemporaneous prevalence of miscarriages. This article examines the diaries of two religious women in colonial Australia and British India around the 1860s to question how mid-19th century women responded to their experiences of miscarriage before the beginning of the medicalisation of pregnancy in the 1880s. Their emotional responses reflected contemporaneous discursive practices, particularly those (quasi)medical ones warned women to maintain a neutral emotional state or risk a miscarriage.

Ein Globales Leben: Das Leben von Adolf und Mary Polly Hartmann in Briefen, ca. 1860-1910

Journal Article • 2018

A biographical examination of Adolf and Mary Polly Hartmann through their letters from 1860-1910.

Poor Heathens, Cone-headed Natives, and Good Water: The Production of Knowledge of the Interior of Australia through German Texts from around the 1860s

Journal Article • 2018 • Australia

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 and scientific journals.

The 1910 Edinburgh World Missionary Conference and Comparative Colonial Education

Journal Article • 2018

In 1910 some 1200 delegates from Protestant missionary societies came together in Edinburgh, Scotland to attend a World Missionary Conference. This paper examines the discussion within the report regarding governmental attitudes to missionary education within colonial spaces. It provides a comparison between the aims of missionary education and the recorded experiences under various governments, particularly at times when they contrasted and conflicted.

Anthropological investigation has very little interest for me: Notes from Moravian Missionaries in Australia

Journal Article • 2017 • Australia

Notes from Moravian missionaries in Australia exploring their relationship with anthropological investigation. This article examines how missionaries engaged with (or resisted) anthropological discourse in the Australian colonial context.

Non-European Teachers in Mission Schools: Introduction

Journal Article • 2016

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 and contributed to broader discourse about knowledge.

Overcoming Objections to Print: The Moravian Periodical Accounts and the Pressure of Publishing in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Journal Article • 2015

An examination of the Moravian periodical Accounts and the pressures of publishing in eighteenth-century Britain. This article explores how the Moravian Church navigated print culture and publication in the early modern period.

Everywhere at Home, Everywhere a Stranger: The Communities of the Moravian Missionary Mary (Polly) Hartmann

Journal Article • 2015

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. The diaries and letters of one female missionary, Mary (Polly) Hartmann (1838-1916), who worked on the Ebenezer mission station in Colonial Victoria from 1863 to 1875, provides an unusual insight into the daily life of a European woman on the Aboriginal mission in the nineteenth century.

The Cultural, Didactic, and Physical Spaces of Mission Schools in the Nineteenth Century

Journal Article • 2013

Nineteenth century Protestant Mission schools were dynamic spaces, constantly reacting and adapting to hierarchic and hegemonic demands, whether of political, religious or societal nature. They were also ideological spaces, which through their form and function, articulated notions of the 'proper' place of non-Europeans in colonial society. This article examines the interconnected cultural, didactic and physical 'spaces' of mission schools in which a variety of competing ideologies and expectations were negotiated.

The Form and Function of Nineteenth-Century Missionary Periodicals

Journal Article • 2013

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.

The Function of Inaugural Editorials in Missionary Periodicals

Journal Article • 2013

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 commodity to deliberately persuade and mold public attitudes.

Publication and Reception of David Cranz's 1767 History of Greenland

Journal Article • 2012 • Greenland

An examination of the publication and reception of David Cranz's History of Greenland from 1767. This article traces how this important Moravian publication was received in Britain and its impact on understandings of Greenland and indigenous peoples.

In Future, Only Female Teachers: Staffing the Ramahyuck mission school in the nineteenth century

Journal Article • 2012 • Australia

An examination of staffing practices at the Ramahyuck mission school in nineteenth-century Australia.

Origins of Missionary Periodicals: Form and Function of Three Moravian publications

Journal Article • 2012

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. This article examines the rationale behind the establishment of three Moravian Church missionary periodicals.

Missionaries and Education in the 19th Century English-Speaking World, Part 1: Church-State Relations and Indigenous Actions and Reactions

Journal Article • 2012

Part 1 of an examination of missionaries and education in the 19th century English-speaking world, focusing on church-state relations.

Missionaries and Education in the 19th Century English-Speaking World, Part 2: Race, Class, and Gender

Journal Article • 2012

Part 2 of an examination of missionaries and education focusing on race, class, and gender dimensions.

Collecting Cultures: Institutional Motivations for Nineteenth-Century Ethnographical Collections Formed by Moravian Missionaries

Journal Article • 2012

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' perceptions of themselves.

Moravian Mission Education in the Nineteenth Century: Global Patterns and Local Manifestations at New Fairfield, Upper Canada

Journal Article • 2011 • Canada

An examination of Moravian mission education patterns and their local manifestations in Upper Canada.

Firewood, Fakirs and Flags: The Construction of the Non-Western Other in a Nineteenth Century Transnational Children's Missionary Periodical

Journal Article • 2011

An analysis of how non-Western others were constructed in a nineteenth-century children's missionary periodical. This article focuses specifically upon The Little Missionary, published between 1870 and 1920 by the Moravian Church in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Controlling marriages: Friedrich Hagenauer and the Betrothal of Indigenous Western Australian Women in Colonial Victoria

Journal Article • 2010 • Australia

An examination of Friedrich Hagenauer's control over marriages of Indigenous Western Australian women in colonial Victoria. This article explores the intersection of mission policy, colonial law, and gender in the control of indigenous women's marriages.

Religious migration and political upheaval: German Moravians at Bethel in the Colony of South Australia, 1851-1907

Journal Article • 2010 • Australia

An examination of German Moravians at Bethel in colonial South Australia during 1851-1907.

Three Peculiarities of the Southern Australian Moravian Mission Field

Journal Article • 2009 • Australia

An exploration of three distinctive features of the southern Australian Moravian mission field.

Flexibility in the Australian Higher Education Framework

Journal Article • 2003 • Australia

An examination of flexibility in the Australian higher education framework.

Writing the Lake Boga Failure

Journal Article • 2003 • Australia

A methodological examination of writing about the Lake Boga failure.

Interconnected and multifaceted approaches to Protestant mission histories

Book Chapter • 2026 • Switzerland

A chapter examining interconnected approaches to Protestant mission histories, focusing on the Basel Mission.

Purchasing Land in German East Africa

Book Chapter • 2026 • East Africa

An examination of land purchasing practices in German East Africa by Moravian missionaries.

Transloyalties and the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft in German New Guinea during the First World War

Book Chapter • 2025 • Papua New Guinea, Germany

An exploration of transloyalties among missionaries from the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft in German New Guinea during WWI.

Then the war came: Women and the First World War in German Kamerun

Book Chapter • 2025 • Cameroon

An examination of women's experiences during WWI in German Cameroon.

Münster und das Münsterland als Kolonialschaufenster

Book Chapter • 2024

An examination of Münster and the Münsterland as a showcase for colonialism.

Ein Besuch aus Neu Guinea: Kolonialismus und Mission in Münsterland

Book Chapter • 2024 • Papua New Guinea

An exploration of visits from New Guinea and the relationship between colonialism and mission in the Münsterland.

Einleitung: Mehr als die Summe seiner Teile: David Cranz' Historie von Grönland

Book Chapter • 2024 • Greenland

Introduction examining David Cranz's History of Greenland as more than the sum of its parts.

A collection of Absurdities: Die Rezeption zweier englischer Versionen von Cranz' Buch in Großbritannien, 1767 und 1820

Book Chapter • 2024 • Greenland

An examination of the reception of two English versions of Cranz's book in Britain in 1767 and 1820.

The Spanish Flu, First Australians and the trope of moral weakness

Book Chapter • 2023 • Australia

An exploration of the Spanish Flu and its impact on First Australians, examining colonial narratives of moral weakness.

Kolonialbotanik: Networks of collecting practices in colonial Germany

Book Chapter • 2022

An examination of networks of collecting practices in colonial Germany, focusing on botanical collections.

Koloniale Spuren und Strukturen in den musealen Einrichtungen Westfalen-Lippes

Book Chapter • 2022 • Germany

An exploration of colonial traces and structures in Westphalia-Lippe museum institutions.

Global Perspectives on Boarding Schools in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Book Chapter • 2022

A chapter providing global perspectives on boarding schools in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

a collection of absurdities: Religious and Scientific Reception of David Cranz's History of Greenland in Britain in 1767 and 1820

Book Chapter • 2021 • Greenland

An examination of the religious and scientific reception of David Cranz's History of Greenland in Britain.

More than the Sum of its Parts: David Cranz's Historie von Grönland

Book Chapter • 2021 • Greenland

An examination of David Cranz's History of Greenland as a multifaceted historical text.

Poor heathens, Cone-headed natives and Good water: the production of knowledge of the interior of Australia through German texts from around the 1860s

Book Chapter • 2020 • Australia

A reprint examining knowledge production about the Australian interior through German texts from the 1860s.

Silenced Women, Speaking Men: Locating Gendered Epistemic Violence in Nineteenth Century Missionary Representations of India

Book Chapter • 2020 • India

An exploration of gendered epistemic violence in nineteenth-century missionary representations of India.

Dann kam der Krieg: Die Persönlichen Erinnerungen Deutscher Missionare im Ausland um 1914

Book Chapter • 2019 • Germany

An examination of personal memories of German missionaries abroad around 1914.

Hope and Pity: Depictions of Children in Five Decades of the Evangelisch-Lutherisches Missionsblatt, 1860-1910

Book Chapter • 2018 • Germany

An analysis of depictions of children in the Evangelisch-Lutherisches Missionsblatt from 1860-1910.

Fischstäbchen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Eine Geschichte des Technologischen und Gesellschaftlichen Wandel

Book Chapter • 2018

A history of fish sticks in the Federal Republic of Germany, examining technological and social change.

Kurze Anweisung Naturalien zu sammeln: Ein historischer Blick auf die Sammlungstätigkeit protestantischer Missionare

Book Chapter • 2017

A historical examination of collecting practices by Protestant missionaries.

The voice of mourning

Book Chapter • 2017

An exploration of the voice of mourning in religious and historical contexts.

Stimm-Wunder? Nachgedanken zur Interdisziplinarität

Book Chapter • 2017

Reflections on interdisciplinary approaches to the study of voice.

Eine Stimme auf Reisen. Mormonen und Schulmeister im 19. Jahrhundert

Book Chapter • 2017

An exploration of traveling voices, examining Mormons and schoolteachers in the nineteenth century.

With one voice. Quakers' use of print in 17th century England

Book Chapter • 2017

An examination of Quakers' use of print in seventeenth-century England.

Briefe, Bibeln und Bilder: Das Medienbewusstsein der Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in Bezug auf die Verbreitung von Informationen über die Dänisch-Hallesche Mission in Tranquebar innerhalb der englischsprachigen Welt am Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts

Book Chapter • 2016 • India

An examination of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge's media awareness regarding the Danish-Halle Mission in Tranquebar.

The Representative Individuality of First-Fruit in Protestant Missionary Texts. Narratives of the Moravian Convert Kayarnak

Book Chapter • 2015

An examination of the representation of the Moravian convert Kayarnak in Protestant missionary texts.

Reporting from the Religious Contact Zone: Missionaries and Anthropologists in Nineteenth-Century Australia

Book Chapter • 2015 • Australia

An exploration of reporting from the religious contact zone between missionaries and anthropologists in nineteenth-century Australia.

Between heaven and earth: the German Templer colonies in Palestine

Book Chapter • 2015 • Palestine

An examination of German Templer colonies in Palestine and their relationship to colonialism.

Introduction: Media and Mission. The Politics of Missionary Periodicals in the Long Nineteenth Century

Book Chapter • 2013

Introduction to the volume on media and mission, examining the politics of missionary periodicals.

Diverging Reports of European Politics and Colonial Aspirations in the Periodical Accounts and the Missions-Blatt

Book Chapter • 2013

An examination of diverging reports on European politics and colonial aspirations in missionary periodicals.

Gesetze, Bildung und Rasse in der Britischen Kolonialwelt des 19. Jahrhunderts. Missionsgesellschaften und ihre rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen in Australien und Kanada

Book Chapter • 2013

An examination of laws, education, and race in the British colonial world, focusing on mission societies in Australia and Canada.

The Little Missionary: Freund-, Fremd- und Feindbilder am Beispiel einer Kindermissionszeitschrift im 19. Jahrhundert in Nordamerika

Book Chapter • 2012

An examination of friend, stranger, and enemy images in a nineteenth-century North American children's missionary periodical.

Colonial Agents: German Moravian Missionaries in the English-Speaking World

Book Chapter • 2010

An examination of German Moravian missionaries as colonial agents in the English-speaking world.

Imperial Critics: Moravian Missionaries in the British Colonial World

Book Chapter • 2008

An exploration of Moravian missionaries as imperial critics in the British colonial world.

Bachelor/Masters: An Australian perspective on the Anglophone perspective

Book Chapter • 2007 • Australia

An Australian perspective on the Anglophone approach to bachelor's and master's degree structures.

Ohne Neid (Without Jealousy): Moravian Missionaries' Ideas of Land Ownership in Colonial Victoria

Book Chapter • 2006 • Australia

An examination of Moravian missionaries' ideas about land ownership in colonial Victoria.

Moravian Missionaries' Contribution to Ethnographical Studies in Victoria: Both Then and Now

Book Chapter • 2004 • Australia

An examination of Moravian missionaries' contributions to ethnographical studies in Victoria.

German-speaking Missionaries and Their Concepts of Britishness

Book Chapter • 2004

An exploration of German-speaking missionaries' concepts of Britishness.

Religöse Artefakte, Beutekunst und Postkolonialismus

Handbook Article • coming soon

A handbook article examining religious artifacts, spoils of war, and postcolonialism in the context of intercultural theology.

Global Bible - Vermächtnisse von (Post)Kolonialen Bibelübersetzungen in der Arktis, Ozeanien und Westafrika

Exhibition Catalogue • 2025 • Arctic, Oceania, West Africa

An exhibition catalogue exploring legacies of (post)colonial Bible translations in the Arctic, Oceania, and West Africa.

Die Bibel in Australia and Oceania

Exhibition Catalogue Contribution • 2025 • Australia, Oceania

An exhibition contribution examining the Bible in Australia and Oceania.

Global Bible: British and German Bible Societies Translating Colonialism, 1800-1914

Exhibition Catalogue Contribution • 2025 • Britain, Germany

An examination of British and German Bible Societies and their role in translating colonialism from 1800-1914.

Mission and colonialism

Exhibition Catalogue Contribution • 2025

An exploration of the relationship between mission and colonialism in museum collections.

Schilderungen aus der Südsee: die Verbreitung von Missionsperiodika und ihre Rolle in der deutschen Öffentlichkeit

Exhibition Catalogue Contribution • 2018 • Pacific

An examination of descriptions from the South Seas and the spread of missionary periodicals in German public life.

Book Review: Stuart D. McKee, Indigenous Enlightenment: Printing and Education in Evangelical Colonialism, 1790-1850

Book Review • 2025

A review of Stuart D. McKee's book on indigenous enlightenment and evangelical colonialism.

Book Review: Catholic Thought and Catholic Action. Scenes from Australian Catholic Life

Book Review • 2024 • Australia

A review of a book on Catholic thought and action in Australian history.

Book Presentation: Missionaries and Modernity. Education in the British Empire, 1830-1910

Book Review • 2022

A presentation of Felicity Jensz's own book on missionaries and modernity in the British Empire.

Book Review: Führ uns an der Hand bis ins Vaterland! Die Auwanderung preussischer Altlutheraner nach Südaustralien

Book Review • 2022 • Australia

A review of a book on Prussian Old Lutheran emigration to South Australia.

Book Review: Missionary education: historical approaches and global perspectives

Book Review • 2023

A review of a book on missionary education from historical and global perspectives.

Missions and religion in Australia

Book Review • 2021 • Australia

A review of works on missions and religion in Australia.

Rezension zu: Swartz, Rebecca: Education and Empire. Children, Race and Humanitarianism in the British Settler Colonies, 1833-1880

Book Review • 2021

A review of Rebecca Swartz's book on education and empire in British settler colonies.

Rezension zu: Tanja Hammel, Shaping Natural History and Settler Society. Mary Elizabeth Barber and the Nineteenth-Century Cape

Book Review • 2021 • South Africa

A review of a book on Mary Elizabeth Barber and natural history at the Cape.

Review of: Eva Bischoff. Benevolent Colonizers in Nineteenth-Century Australia: Quaker Lives and Ideals

Book Review • 2021 • Australia

A review of a book on Quaker colonizers in nineteenth-century Australia.

Review of: Education and empire: children, race and humanitarianism in the British settler colonies, 1833-1880

Book Review • 2020

A review of a book on education and empire in British settler colonies.

Review of: Mission und Sklaverei. Die Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine und die Sklavenemanzipation in British- und Dänisch-Westindien

Book Review • 2018 • Caribbean

A review of a book on Moravian missions and slave emancipation in the Caribbean.

Rezension zu: Mission Global. Eine Verflechtungsgeschichte seit dem 19. Jahrhundert

Book Review • 2015

A review of a book on global mission history since the nineteenth century.

Review of: German Expansionism, Imperial Liberalism and the United States, 1776-1945

Book Review • 2014 • United States

A review of a book on German expansionism and imperial liberalism.

Rezension zu: Missionsgeschichte als Geschichte der Globalisierung von Wissen

Book Review • 2014

A review of a book on mission history as the history of globalization of knowledge.

Rezension zu: Tyrrell, Ian, Reforming the World. The creation of America's Moral Empire

Book Review • 2011

A review of Ian Tyrrell's book on America's moral empire.

Kommunikation zwischen einem Herrnhuter Missionar, F.A. Hagenauer, und dem Naturwissenschaftler Charles Darwin

Book Review • 2010

An examination of communication between Moravian missionary F.A. Hagenauer and scientist Charles Darwin.

Rezensiert: Mettele, Gisela, Weltbürgertum oder Gottesreich. Die Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine als globale Gemeinschaft 1727-1857

Book Review • 2010

A review of a book on the Moravian Church as a global community.

Rezension zu: Trans-Pacific Interactions. The United States and China, 1880-1950

Book Review • 2010 • China, United States

A review of a book on US-China interactions from 1880-1950.

Conference Report: Reporting Christian Missions. Communication, Culture of Knowledge and Regular Publication in a Cross-Confessional Perspective

Conference Report • 2009

A report on a workshop about reporting Christian missions and the culture of knowledge.