Cosmopolitan Lives on the Cusp of Empire Interfaith, Cross-Cultural
This book looks back to the period 1860 to 1950 in order to grasp how alternative visions of amity and co-existence were forged between people of faith, both within and resistant to imperial contact zones. It argues that networks
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Jane Haggis • Clare Midgley • Margaret Allen • Fiona Paisley
Cosmopolitan Lives on the Cusp of Empire Interfaith, Cross-Cultural and Transnational Networks, 1860–1950
Jane Haggis College of Humanities, Arts and Social Science Flinders University Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Margaret Allen Gender Studies and Social Analysis University of Adelaide Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
ISBN 978-3-319-52747-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-52748-2
Clare Midgley Department of Humanities Sheffield Hallam University Sheffield, United Kingdom Fiona Paisley School of Humanities, Languages, and Social Science Griffith University Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
ISBN 978-3-319-52748-2 (eBook)
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PREFACE
The idea for this book and our collaboration coalesced through conversation at conferences and other gatherings where we shared bits and pieces of evidence about our various research into matters of religion, empire, gender and race. We became increasingly aware of synergies and connections between our different research data sets. We began to discern how the vocabularies of colonial racial hierarchies appeared to be shifting around through articulations of faith and affect that did not conform to the binaries of empire taken for granted in much of the New Imperial History. An uneven, ambiguous and at times, contradictory, opening up of new imaginaries of interfaith and cross-cultural universa
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