Good morning and welcome to #OnBelonging session 2.1, ‘Geographies of Devotion’ with @ThomasCliftonA5, Charlie Beirouti, & @CatRoseEvans. Expect pearls and beads, discourses of purity, and the gestures of ‘practical godliness’.
First up, @ThomasCliftonA5 discusses the spiritual in-betweenness of sailors who were regarded as ‘a third sort of person, to be numbered neither with the living nor the dead, their lives hanging continually in suspense’. #OnBelonging
Thomas deftly weaves fear of impurity & concern with moral goodness with state’s reliance on mariners to advance colonial project & benefit from colonial exploitation. #OnBelonging
Next up, Charlie Beirouti brings Anglicans and the Greek Orthodox Church into the mix, following John Covel, master of Christ’s College, Cambridge, to Asia Minor. #OnBelonging
Charlie uses the personal experience of Covel’s travels to Constantinople to contextualise theological debates about the Christian use of the sign of the cross in Ottoman territories, offering a case study into how travel and pragmatism influenced wider debates. #OnBelonging
And now, @CatRoseEvans investigates the confluence between pearls, beads, and geopolitical exploitation, using the devotional writing of Mary Rich #OnBelonging
Cat offers a unique look into ‘inward-facing texts’ and how the moral lessons that individuals read into global goods helped perpetuate colonial expansion and white European value systems. #OnBelonging
All three papers compelling show how English individuals, whether they travelled themselves or experienced other places through objects & stories, used global associations to express conceptions of value #OnBelonging
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