Dr. Christina Petterson
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Postdoc Project: Sexuality and Social Control: Religious Dissent and the Dissolution of the Household |
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Description of the Project
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My postdoc project is an analysis of the household and the sexual politics of the Moravian Brethren in the early 18th century as expressed in the speeches of the community’s founder, Count Zinzendorf. I examine the role of the material body on the cusp of feudalism and capitalism, as well as between a theological and scientific worldview. I am particularly interested in how the socio-economic context of the speeches interacts with their content. |
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Particulars |
Christina Petterson studied theology in Copenhagen, and finished her PhD in cultural studies in Sydney, Australia (2011). 2011-2013 postdoc at the research training group »Gender as a Category of Knowledge«. She is a visiting fellow at the Centre for European Studies, Australian National University in Canberra, and is on the editorial board of the journal, Critical Research on Religion (Sage). From October 2016 Gerda Henkel research fellow with the comparative project: Balancing Economy and Christ: The Brüdergemeine in Greenland and Australia. |
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Selected Publications
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The Missionary, the Catechist and the Hunter. Foucault, Protestantism and Colonialism, Leiden 2013. Acts of Empire. The Acts of the Apostles and Imperial Ideology, Taiwan 2012. Colonial Subjectification. Foucault, Christianity and Governmentality. In: Cultural Studies Review 18/2 (2012). P. 89 – 108. En konge i sin faders sted. Bibel og konge i den danske enevælde. In: Bibelske Genskrivninger, ed. by Mogens Müller a. Jesper Høgenhaven, Kopenhagen 2012. P. 413 – 434. |
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