JoMaCC. Journal of Modern and Contemporary Christianity

Call for Paper per il fascicolo / Call for paper for the issue
Vol. 5 - Num. 1 - 2026

Data di apertura / Opening date:11/09/2024
Data di chiusura / Closing date:15/12/2024

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND PAPERS

JoMaCC. Journal of Modern and Contemporary Christianity
1/2026

 

North America. A Mission Landscape (1820s-1910s)

Editor: Valentina Ciciliot (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy)
Guest editors: Claudio Ferlan (Italian-German Historical Institute, FBK, Italy)

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the spread of the Christian faith experienced a new upswing in which all denominations – Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox – were involved. It was rightly described as a missionary century: the definition comes from a pioneer of missiology, Gustav Warneck (1834-1910), while Kenneth Scott Latourette (1884-1968) speaks of the great century of Christian missions

One of the places that marked this change was North America, where the missionary zeal of representatives of various Christian denominations, both women and men, materialized in a variety of ways. The specificity of missionary work in this country was characterized by a multifaceted activity carried out among emigrants, settlers, and members of the US Army on the one hand, and among the indigenous peoples on the other. For this reason, the situation required a constant confrontation between different religious and material cultures.

The purpose of this call for articles is to gather contributions that will deepen the understanding of these multifaceted efforts and consider the diversity of missionary activities of Catholics and Protestants, men and women, organized and unorganized, both within American society (towns, wagon trains, pioneers, mines, workplaces) and within the native population.

Possible topics:

  • Christian missions
  • Religious Orders, Congregations and Confraternities
  • Schools, Catechism
  • Missionary literature
  • Women’s voices
  • Native population’s perspective

 

Proposal submission deadline
December 15th, 2024 (Authors may submit an abstract or extended abstract in English)

Notification of acceptance
January 2025

Submission deadline for final and complete articles
January 15th, 2026

 

Articles should be written in English and range between approx. 30,000-50,000 characters (space included). The instructions for authors can be consulted on the journal’s website: Editorial Guidelines (Section 4.2 Author, title).

Submitted articles must be suitable for blind review. Each submission should include a brief abstract of no more than 650 words, five keywords for indexing purposes, and a bibliography.

For any questions, please use the following address: jomacc_editor@unive.it; vciciliot@unive.it.

 

Bibliography

Clarke, E.S. (2020). “The Sisters of Our Lady of the Snows: An Indigenous, Alaskan Sisterhood”. American Catholic Studies, 131(3), 57-91.
Fleck, M. (2024). “Sisters of Providence: Their Arrival and Adaptations to the Pacific Northwest”. Oregon Historical Quarterly, 125(2), 134-56.
Martin, J. W.; Mark, A.N. (eds) (2014). Native Americans, Christianity, and the Reshaping of the American Religious Landscape. Chapel Hill, NC: North Carolina Scholarship Online.
McKevitt, G. (2007). Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848–1919. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
O’Donnell, C. (2020). Jesuits in the North American Colonies and the United States: Faith, Conflict, Adaptation. Leiden: Brill.
Joyeux, M.; Robinaud, M. (eds) (2023). “Missions catholiques féminines en contexte colonial et post-colonial”. Archives de sciences sociales des religions, 202, 2.

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