Ancestral Feeling
SCM Press (Verlag)
978-0-334-06090-1 (ISBN)
"Ancestral Feeling" systematically diagnoses the postcolonial problems generated by an ancestral outlook. But, applying critical theories in cultural studies to the study of church history, the book experiments with ways that the Western Christian inheritance can awaken the memory of one’s own ancestors.
Writing a personal reflection on her family’s history in British-ruled Hong Kong, Renie Chow Choy engages autobiographically with England’s ecclesiastical art, architecture, music, and literature, in order to affirm her attachment to a heritage normally associated with English national identity. For global and immigrant Christians brought into a relationship with English Christianity by colonialism but are bypassed by its history, this book makes a bold declaration: England’s Christian heritage is also our story.
Renie Chow Choy is Lecturer in Church History at St Mellitus College. She has published on various aspects of early medieval Christianity, and is the author of Intercessory Prayer and the Monastic Ideal in the Time of the Carolingian Reforms (Oxford University Press). She is currently working on inclusive memory in the interpretation of England’s historic churches.
Preface ix
Introduction 1
1. ‘Religious Ancestry’: Christian Historiography and English Imperialism 34
2. ‘Religious Ancestry’: The Postcolonial Critique of Christian Historiography 53
3. The Ancestor Effect 75
4. Ancestral Hardship and the Western Christian Canon 97
5. Ancestral Nostalgia and Ecclesiastical Heritage Sites 121
6. Ancestral Migration and Christian Cultural Capital 148
Conclusion 183
Afterword 192
Index 195
Erscheinungsdatum | 25.11.2021 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 135 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte |
Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-334-06090-7 / 0334060907 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-334-06090-1 / 9780334060901 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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