Gender and Conversion Narratives in the Nineteenth Century - 9781472449238

Taylor & Francis

\""...an interesting and methodically interesting endeavour...\"" - Martina Gugglberger, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria\n > Kirsten R\u00C3\u00BCther is a professor of History and Societies in Africa at the Department of African Studies of the University of Vienna. Her research interests include issues of Christianisation and colonialism, health and popular culture, and the study of family and kinship. She is currently working on a book on life histories in Africa. Angelika Schaser is Professor for Modern History at the Universit\u00C3\u00A4t Hamburg. She was a member of the research group \u2019Self-Narratives in Transcultural Perspective\u2019 at the Freie Universit\u00C3\u00A4t Berlin, 2004 to 2010. Her research includes projects on nation and gender in the German history of the 19th and 20th centuries as well as on religious conversions, minorities, collective memories, history of historiography, and auto/biographical research. Jacqueline Van Gent is a historian at .