Assembling Missionary Knowledge: The Making and Reading of Evangelical Periodicals in Britain and the South Pacific, 1793–1820
27 May 2025, 16:00 - 27 May 2025, 17:30 Faculty of Divinity, West Road, Cambridge
Tuesday 27 May 2025, 4.00–5.30pm BST
Faculty of Divinity, West Road & online
Through exploring how missionaries interacted with periodical culture in the early nineteenth century, this seminar paper by Dr Kate Tilson, University of Cambridge, works to disentangle missionary knowledge networks and to locate the formation of their intellectual worlds. A key concern here is how British periodicals reconfigured missionary conceptualisations of ‘home’ and ‘mission’ amidst complex and often difficult cross-cultural encounters on the ground. In turning away from the idea that evangelical periodicals were solely vehicles of propaganda, the paper opens up a space in which to discuss how these texts extended evangelical networks overseas and coalesced with other knowledge traditions.
Array