Fluid Faith and Oceanic Interaction in the Nineteenth Century
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This article focuses on the history of local-planetary dynamics of religion through the oceanic relationships formed aboard Euro-American sailing vessels engaged in economic and military activities, with a focus on merchant shipping and whaling. Drawing on archival and published materials from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, written by workers and travelers during their interactions with marine ecosystems through the technological and ecological mediators of ships. Through these, it examines how the interwoven social, ecological, and technological environment shaped the faith of seafarers. By examining these dynamics that occupy at once an intensely local and more broadly planetary scale, this article shows how religion can be lived fluidly and with often intense connections to the environment while in the process of damaging that ecological realm further while attending to the non-universal and fluid qualities of such interactions.
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Fluid Faith and Oceanic Interaction in the Nineteenth Century
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This article focuses on the history of local-planetary dynamics of religion through the oceanic relationships formed aboard Euro-American sailing vessels engaged in economic and military activities, with a focus on merchant shipping and whaling. Drawing on archival and published materials from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, written by workers and travelers during their interactions with marine ecosystems through the technological and ecological mediators of ships. Through these, it examines how the interwoven social, ecological, and technological environment shaped the faith of seafarers. By examining these dynamics that occupy at once an intensely local and more broadly planetary scale, this article shows how religion can be lived fluidly and with often intense connections to the environment while in the process of damaging that ecological realm further while attending to the non-universal and fluid qualities of such interactions.
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