Peering into Prisons, Gazing upon Graves: Early U.S. Missionary Media from Burma

This article examines the nineteenth-century print culture and religious imagination inspired by the imprisonment of an American Baptist missionary to Burma during the First Anglo-Burmese War, 1824–1826, and by the death of his wife and child shortly thereafter. Adoniram Judson had been incarcerated...

Full description

Saved in:  
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Material religion
Main Author: Kaloyanides, Alexandra (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Journals Online & Print:
Drawer...
Fernleihe:Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste
Published: Taylor & Francis 2021
In: Material religion
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Judson, Adoniram 1788-1850 / Myanmar / American Baptist Foreign Mission Society / Missionary / Family / Suffering / Spread of / Protestantism / Press / History 1839-2013
RelBib Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
CH Christianity and Society
KBM Asia
KBQ North America
RJ Mission; missiology
ZA Social sciences
Further subjects:B Religious Imagination
B print culture
B Myanmar
B Evangelism
B Burma
B Missions
B Nineteenth-century
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)

MARC

LEADER 00000caa a22000002 4500
001 1759591947
003 DE-627
005 20220314195005.0
007 cr uuu---uuuuu
008 210603s2021 xx |||||o 00| ||eng c
024 7 |a 10.1080/17432200.2021.1897280  |2 doi 
035 |a (DE-627)1759591947 
035 |a (DE-599)KXP1759591947 
040 |a DE-627  |b ger  |c DE-627  |e rda 
041 |a eng 
084 |a 0  |2 ssgn 
100 1 |a Kaloyanides, Alexandra  |e VerfasserIn  |4 aut 
109 |a Kaloyanides, Alexandra 
245 1 0 |a Peering into Prisons, Gazing upon Graves: Early U.S. Missionary Media from Burma 
264 1 |c 2021 
336 |a Text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a Computermedien  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a Online-Ressource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
520 |a This article examines the nineteenth-century print culture and religious imagination inspired by the imprisonment of an American Baptist missionary to Burma during the First Anglo-Burmese War, 1824–1826, and by the death of his wife and child shortly thereafter. Adoniram Judson had been incarcerated on charges of spying for the British but was eventually released to serve the king of Burma as a translator for the treaty that ended the war. Eight months later, his wife, Ann, and their two-year-old daughter, Maria, died from fevers. Stories of the Judsons’ suffering began to circulate widely after an illustration of Ann’s and Maria’s graves was published in 1839 and an illustration of them visiting Adoniram in prison was published in 1853. These scenes of buried and chained bodies were reproduced, redrawn, and reimagined in the nineteenth-century Protestant press and took on new shape in twentieth-century film and twenty-first-century commemorative displays. This article argues that the multiple iterations of these wrenching scenes created an imagined world of redemptive missionary sacrifice that travelled from the 1830 s through to the twenty-first century along circuitous routes, changing shape and repopulating along the way. Collectively picturing the Judsons’ extreme physical suffering in a foreign land primed generations of Baptist communities to see missionary labor and its domestic support as acts of righteous sacrifice. 
650 4 |a Religious Imagination 
650 4 |a Evangelism 
650 4 |a print culture 
650 4 |a Nineteenth-century 
650 4 |a Myanmar 
650 4 |a Burma 
650 4 |a Missions 
652 |a CB:CH:KBM:KBQ:RJ:ZA 
689 0 0 |d p  |0 (DE-588)118713345  |0 (DE-627)079495036  |0 (DE-576)166818909  |2 gnd  |a Judson, Adoniram  |d 1788-1850 
689 0 1 |d g  |0 (DE-588)1193111315  |0 (DE-627)1671695461  |2 gnd  |a Myanmar 
689 0 2 |d b  |0 (DE-588)4377960-8  |0 (DE-627)185238297  |0 (DE-576)211787000  |2 gnd  |a American Baptist Foreign Mission Society 
689 0 3 |d s  |0 (DE-588)4039575-3  |0 (DE-627)106227572  |0 (DE-576)209035544  |2 gnd  |a Missionar 
689 0 4 |d s  |0 (DE-588)4016397-0  |0 (DE-627)104427175  |0 (DE-576)208915818  |2 gnd  |a Familie 
689 0 5 |d s  |0 (DE-588)4035177-4  |0 (DE-627)106249088  |0 (DE-576)209011076  |2 gnd  |a Leid 
689 0 6 |d s  |0 (DE-588)4187586-2  |0 (DE-627)104499583  |0 (DE-576)210046775  |2 gnd  |a Verbreitung 
689 0 7 |d s  |0 (DE-588)4047538-4  |0 (DE-627)106194321  |0 (DE-576)20907387X  |2 gnd  |a Protestantismus 
689 0 8 |d s  |0 (DE-588)4047150-0  |0 (DE-627)106195492  |0 (DE-576)209072490  |2 gnd  |a Presse 
689 0 9 |q z  |2 gnd  |a Geschichte 1839-2013 
689 0 |5 (DE-627) 
773 0 8 |i Enthalten in  |t Material religion  |d Abingdon : Taylor & Francis, 2005  |g 17(2021), 2, Seite 177-201  |h Online-Ressource  |w (DE-627)490718434  |w (DE-600)2192970-1  |w (DE-576)273875507  |x 1751-8342  |7 nnns 
773 1 8 |g volume:17  |g year:2021  |g number:2  |g pages:177-201 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2021.1897280  |x Resolving-System  |z lizenzpflichtig  |3 Volltext 
935 |a mteo 
936 u w |d 17  |j 2021  |e 2  |h 177-201 
951 |a AR 
ELC |a 1 
ITA |a 1  |t 1 
LOK |0 000 xxxxxcx a22 zn 4500 
LOK |0 001 3934348130 
LOK |0 003 DE-627 
LOK |0 004 1759591947 
LOK |0 005 20220314195005 
LOK |0 008 210603||||||||||||||||ger||||||| 
LOK |0 035   |a (DE-Tue135)IxTheo#2021-06-02#2D93DCC82B1F715DA7C3F156055D531C2CDE197D 
LOK |0 040   |a DE-Tue135  |c DE-627  |d DE-Tue135 
LOK |0 092   |o n 
LOK |0 852   |a DE-Tue135 
LOK |0 852 1  |9 00 
LOK |0 935   |a ixzs  |a zota 
LOK |0 936ln  |0 144204893X  |a KBM 
LOK |0 936ln  |0 1442053240  |a RJ 
LOK |0 936ln  |0 1442049227  |a KBQ 
LOK |0 936ln  |0 1442043768  |a CB 
LOK |0 936ln  |0 1550735845  |a CH 
LOK |0 936ln  |0 1442053771  |a ZA 
ORI |a SA-MARC-ixtheoa001.raw 
REL |a 1 
STA 0 0 |a Family,Family,Families in literature,Missionary,Missionary,Press,Protestantism,Protestantism,Spread of,Suffering,Suffering,Suffering in art 
STB 0 0 |a Diffusion,Famille,Famille,Missionaire,Missionnaire,Presse,Protestantisme,Protestantisme,Souffrance,Souffrance 
STC 0 0 |a Difusión,Familia,Familia,Familias,Misionario,Misionario,Prensa,Protestantismo,Protestantismo,Sufrimiento,Sufrimiento,Sufrimiento 
STD 0 0 |a Diffusione,Famiglia,Famiglia,Missionario,Missionario,Protestantesimo,Protestantesimo,Sofferenza,Sofferenza,Stampa,Carta stampata,Carta stampata 
STE 0 0 |a 传播,蔓延,基督新教,基督新教,抗罗宗,更正教,抗罗宗,更正教,宣教士,宣教士,家,家,家庭,家庭,新闻媒体,痛苦,痛苦,不幸,悲伤,不幸,悲伤 
STF 0 0 |a 傳播,蔓延,基督新教,基督新教,抗羅宗,更正教,抗羅宗,更正教,宣教士,宣教士,家,家,家庭,家庭,新聞媒體,痛苦,痛苦,不幸,悲傷,不幸,悲傷 
STG 0 0 |a Difusão,Família,Família,Imprensa,Missionário,Missionário,Protestantismo,Protestantismo,Sofrimento,Sofrimento 
STH 0 0 |a Миссионер (мотив),Миссионер,Пресса,Протестантизм,Протестантизм,Протестантство,Протестантство (мотив),Распространение,Семья (мотив),Семья,Страдание (мотив),Страдание 
STI 0 0 |a Διάδοση,Εξάπλωση,Ιεραπόστολος (μοτίβο),Ιεραπόστολος,Οικογένεια (μοτίβο),Οικογένεια,Προτεσταντισμός (μοτίβο),Προτεσταντισμός,Πόνος <μοτίβο>,Πόνος,Δυστυχία,Κακό,Δοκιμασία,Δυστυχία (μοτίβο),Κακό (μοτίβο),Δοκιμασία (μοτίβο),Τύπος 
SUB |a REL 
SYE 0 0 |a Birma,Ost,Bamar,Mranmā-praññ,Myanma Naingngan,Myanma-Pyee,Praññ-thoṅ-cu-Mranmā-nuiṅ-ṅaṃ,Pyee-daung-su Myanma-Nainggan,Praññ-thoṅ-cu-chuirhaylac-sammata-Mranmā-nuiṅ-ṅaṃ-tō,Union of Myanmar,Union Myanmar,Union du Myanmar,British Burma,Upper Burma,Burma,Provinz Burma,Birma , Birma,Birmanie 
SYG 0 0 |a Judson, A.,1788-1850 , Birma,Ost,Bamar,Mranmā-praññ,Myanma Naingngan,Myanma-Pyee,Praññ-thoṅ-cu-Mranmā-nuiṅ-ṅaṃ,Pyee-daung-su Myanma-Nainggan,Praññ-thoṅ-cu-chuirhaylac-sammata-Mranmā-nuiṅ-ṅaṃ-tō,Union of Myanmar,Union Myanmar,Union du Myanmar,British Burma,Upper Burma,Burma,Provinz Burma,Birma , Baptist Foreign Missionary Society,American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society,ABFMS,ABFMS,American Baptist Missionary Union,American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society,Triennial Convention,General Missionary Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States for Foreign Missions,American Baptist Mission , Familien,Family,Relatives,Verwandte,Verwandtschaft,Familien , Leiden , Protestantism,Calvinismus,Hugenotten,Lutheraner,Mennoniten,Pietismus,Puritans , Kommunikation - Presse,Zeitung,Zeitungen,Pressewesen 
TIM |a 100018390101_100020131231  |b Geschichte 1839-2013