248 LT - Difficult Conversations Within Cosmopolitanisms of Faith, Gender and Race.

Saturday, June 3, 2017: 1:45 PM-3:15 PM
BRESL 211 (Hofstra University)
American Women in India: the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Creation of a "World-Wide Sisterhood," 1887-1900
Lori Osborne, Frances Willard Memorial Library and Archives
Difficult Conversations/Radical Choices: Anita Caspary, IHM and Immaculate Heart Community of California
Susan Marie Maloney, Women Development and Earth Foundation
A child marriage controversy: difficult conversations within a network of British and Bengali religious liberals and social reformers in the 1870s
Clare Midgley, Sheffield Hallam University
Difficult Conversations across Religions, Race and Empires: American Women Missionaries and Japanese Christian Women during the 1930s and 40s
Noriko Kawamura Ishii, Sophia University
Building cosmopolitan amity in inter-faith, cross-cultural friendships in imperial contact zones: 'difficult conversations' between Indian and British women of faith 1880 to 1940. .
Jane Haggis, Flinders University

Session Abstract

This panel explores gender, race and culture in the development of faith-based cosmopolitan visions of the world, and in the process throws new light on the interconnections between the development of transnational religious networks and post imperial cosmopolitanisms. The period between 1860 and 1940 witnessed the vibrant emergence of alternative imaginaries of post-imperial worlds as the era of European empires peaked and drew to a close. Jostling alongside the “global colour line” were rich seams of anti-racisms, anti-colonialisms, feminisms and peace movements. Less well explored in existing historiographies of imperialism are the ways in which faith based networks, Christian and non-Christian, engaged with and were re-shaped by these counter-vocabularies of faith, identity and nation. Indeed, as the three papers in this panel argue, faith and spirituality, including Christianity, were a core component of new cosmopolitan thought zones in this period. However, building such thought zones was not plain sailing. The three papers in the panel each pick up on aspects of the difficult conversations involved in creating these spaces between the push and pull of cultural diversities, customary practices, and new forms of nationalisms, including new non-European imperialisms. They explore the ways in which women and men aspired to and created important spaces of faith-based cosmopolitanisms that anticipated or helped contribute to the emergence of post-world war two discourses of egalitarianism, ecumenicalism and human rights.

 

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