Prispevek obravnava življenjsko zgodbo misijonarke in nagrajene pisateljice Marije Sreš ter odpira nove poglede na misijonske ženske migracije. Predstavlja spoj verske s posvetno poklicanostjo, ki ...opredeljuje migracijske poti in literarno ustvarjanje Marije Sreš v Indiji, pri čemer misijonarka-avtorica pogosto izstopa iz predpisanih spolnih vlog. Prispevek njeno zgodbo umešča v širši kontekst katoliške internacionale sedemdesetih let prejšnjega stoletja. Družbeni angažma Marije Sreš temelji na osebni veri v Kristusa, ki ji ponuja legitimacijo za žensko delovanje v misijonih in možnost večje samorealizacije (tudi s pisanjem).
Drawing on archival sources and adopting a microhistory approach that pays attention to “hidden transcripts,” this article aims to fill a gap in the scholarship on Catholic women and medical missions ...by analysing the largely overlooked contribution of two women doctors, Agnes McLaren and Anna Dengel, in professionalising the healing ministry of the Catholic Church. In 1925, Dengel founded an international religious congregation, the Society of Catholic Medical Missionaries, with the goal of providing professional health care to women in British India at a time when Church law still forbade Sisters to practise the full scope of medicine. Focusing on the years leading up to the Society's foundation and its early days in India, I highlight the multilayered context of their “holy experiment,” the various hierarchies and discourses within which they operated, and the ways in which as European Catholic women religious they negotiated with the Church patriarchy. Focusing on and advancing a nuanced approach to female religious agency, I demonstrate how their complex marginal positionality vis‐à‐vis both Church hierarchy and British colonial establishment made them paradoxical players whose very terms of subordination gave them possibilities for agency and self‐determination. My analysis of their motivations, ideas, and self‐understanding challenges the standard postcolonial critique of medical missions.
In this paper I explore some of the connections the Slovene poet Srečko Kosovel (1904–1926) surmised between himself and the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941). I argue that what linked the ...two poets into a joint framework across the vastly different cultural and politico-geographic space was not just the fact that Kosovel read Tagore and took inspiration from the Bengali poet at the height of Tagore’s reputation in continental Europe, but that they shared a number of preoccupations, informed by their respective historical positioning. Both wrote from a profound awareness of their region’s subjugated status and endorsed an anti-imperialist stance that rejected nationalism as a viable means of liberation, embracing instead a creative universalist ideal.
The following five papers by scholars from various academic disciplines are intended as a contextual and methodological backdrop to a larger and on-going research project, begun in May 2017 under the ...title “Slovene Women Missionaries in India: A Forgotten Chapter in Intercultural Relations” (ARRS – J6 8258). Barely half way through this study, we are yet to complete the gathering and processing of primary data related to the lives of a dozen Slovene women missionaries, who left their native country over the course of the twentieth century and ended up in different parts of India, where they lived, worked and – in most cases – also died.
This paper offers a new reading of Rabindranath Tagore's acclaimed novel Ghare Baire (Home and the World) by looking at it explicitly through the prism of hospitality. Drawing on the critical ...vocabulary of Jacques Derrida, it frames the central question of the novel as that of taking the risk of offering (un)conditional hospitality, with all its consequences. This involves exploring and tracing the ideological roots of the radical ethical position of the main protagonist, Nikhilesh, who self-consciously allows a guest to overstay his welcome. The novel is read as a paean to hospitality as risk-taking, and therefore to the frightening ordeal of freedom with ambiguous outcomes.
The rise and fall of W.B. Yeats's enthusiasm for Rabindranath Tagore as a poet is analyzed here as due primarily to Yeats's own changing aspirations for restoring a pristine Ireland. Reinforcing this ...psychological interpretation is a post-colonial argument that finds Yeats, notwithstanding his opposition to colonial rule in Ireland and India, as unable to appreciate the Bengali poet as intellectually and politically a fully mature and autonomous individual. Once Tagore had rejected his British knighthood in protest against the Jallianwalla Bagh massacre, it is argued, he no longer fitted the benign but condescending stereotype of serene, spiritual Oriental that had helped propel him to the Nobel Prize.
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DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NUK, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, SIK, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK
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