Karla Poewe

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Karla Olga Poewe (born in 1941 in Königsberg , East Prussia ) is a German - Canadian anthropologist and historian .

She is the author of ten scientific books and 50 scientific articles in international journals. In 2017 Poewe was Professor Emerita in Anthropology at the University of Calgary , Calgary , Canada and Associate Research Professor at Liverpool Hope University in Liverpool, England .

biography

Born in 1941 in Königsberg , Poewe became a refugee at the age of three after 189 Lancaster bombers of No. 5 Group of the British Royal Air Force dropped 480 tons of bombs on the city center on the night of August 26th to 27th, 1944. Her family was transported to a small town in Poland , from where they had to move on after a few weeks. About six months later the family was near Dresden , just as the air raids on Dresden were taking place. They moved from Dresden to Plauen in Saxony and stayed in Werdau for about four years . Her mother and older sisters lived in constant fear of rape by Red Army soldiers . In 1947, the siblings lived in an orphanage near Berlin for several months because there was something to eat. There the sisters were separated from the Red Army. Karla Poewe didn't see her sisters again until 1995. In 1948 the father returned from a Soviet captivity. He died shortly afterwards. After his death, Karla's mother walked with her over 250 km, mostly at night, to get into the British occupation zone near Göttingen . From there they moved to the small town of Buxtehude . Karla Poewe got her first school lesson there. Her memories of this time were published in 1988 in the book Childhood in Germany during World War II .

In 1955 her mother remarried and they emigrated to Canada. There Karla Poewe graduated from high school in Toronto . After several other jobs, Poewe worked as a flight attendant at Trans-Canada Airlines to raise money for her studies.

Career

Karla Poewe began studying at the University of Toronto , where she won several prestigious scholarships. She originally wanted to study medicine, but switched to anthropology. After completing her BA , she took a Ph.D. Program at the University of New Mexico , where Harry Basehart became her PhD advisor. Poewe studied with John Middleton at New York University and learned Swahili and Bemba at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . She did the field research for her doctoral thesis in Zambia .

After completing her PhD, she taught at the University of Toronto for one year before going to the University of Lethbridge in Alberta . She did more field research in Namibia, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. During this time she published her first book, " Matrilineal Ideology " (1981), followed by " Reflections of a Woman Anthropologist " (1982). This book, which ushered in a new genre of anthropological writing, was published under the pseudonym Manda Cesara at the request of the publisher.

After Karla Poewe married the British-Canadian religious scholar Irving Hexham , the two together published the books Understanding Cults and New Religions (1986) and New Religions as Global Cultures (1997). Poewe began doing fieldwork in South Africa , where she studied the emergence of the Charismatic Christian Churches and their members' relationship with apartheid . This groundbreaking work led to an international conference at the University of Calgary in 1993 on "Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture", which led to the publication of a book of the same title.

Poewe finished her fieldwork in South Africa in 1989 after her close friend Rt. Rev. Londa Shembe , leader of a branch of the Zulu African Independent Church amaNazaretha , was murdered and two other friends were also murdered. These tragedies led Poewe to turn her interest to the role of missionaries in Africa in the areas she had explored. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, she had free access to the archives of the Berliner Missionswerk . While doing research in these archives in 1995, she found a lot of material on conflicts between the Berlin Missionswerk and the National Socialists . This material provided the basis for a new project on the role of religions in the rise of National Socialism, which took almost ten years to complete and led to her last book, New Religions and the Nazis (2006). Poewe is currently researching the treatment of German refugees at the end of the Second World War and is interested in the effects of the defeat on the defeated.

Works

  • Matrilineal Ideology: Male-Female Dynamics in Luapula, Zambia . 1st edition. Academic Press, 1981, ISBN 0-12-558850-X (English).
  • Manda Cesara (pseudonym): Reflections of a Woman Anthropologist: No Hiding Place . 1st edition. Academic Press, 1982, ISBN 0-12-164880-X (English).
  • The Namibian Herero: A History of the Psychosocial Disintegration and Survival . 1st edition. Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, NY, USA 1985, ISBN 0-88946-176-7 (English).
  • Irving Hexham, Karla Poewe: Understanding Cults and New Religions . Eerdmans Pub Co, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA 1986, ISBN 0-8028-0170-6 (English).
  • Childhood in Germany During World War II: The Story of a Little Girl . Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, NY 1988, ISBN 0-88946-354-9 (English).
  • Religion, Kinship and Economy in Luapula, Zambia . Edwin Mellen Pr, 1989, ISBN 0-88946-190-2 (English).
  • Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture . University South Carolina Press, 1994, ISBN 0-87249-996-0 (English).
  • Irving Hexham, Karla Poewe: New Religions As Global Cultures: Making The Human Sacred . Westview Press, 1997, ISBN 0-8133-2508-0 (English).
  • New Religions and the Nazis . 1st edition. Routledge, Oxford 2005, ISBN 0-203-50844-0 (English).
Scientific articles (selection)
  • Religion, Matriliny, and Change: Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh-Day Adventists in Luapula, Zambia . In: American Ethnologist . tape 5 , no. 2 , May 1978, p. 303-321 , JSTOR : 643293 (English).
  • Matriliny and Capitalism: the Development of Incipient Classes in Luapula, Zambia . In: Dialectical Anthropology . tape 3 , no. 4 , January 1, 1978, p. 331-347 , JSTOR : 29789943 (English).
  • Matrilineal Ideology: The Economic Activities of Women in Luapula, Zambia1 A2 - CORDELL, LINDA S. In: The Versatility of Kinship . Academic Press, 1980, ISBN 978-1-4832-2793-1 , pp. 333-357 , doi : 10.1016 / B978-1-4832-2793-1.50020-8 (English).
  • Strange Pain: Textual Expressions From Africa and the Caribbean . In: Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly . tape 10 , no. 4 , December 1, 1985, ISSN  1548-1409 , pp. 91–99 , doi : 10.1525 / ahu.1985.10.4.91 (English).
  • On the Metonymic Structure of Religious Experiences: The Example of Charismatic Christianity . In: Cultural Dynamics . tape 2 , no. 4 , July 24, 2016, p. 361-380 , doi : 10.1177 / 092137408900200401 (English).
  • Theologies of Black South Africans and the Rhetoric of Peace versus Violence . In: Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines . tape 27 , no. 1 , January 1, 1993, p. 43-65 , doi : 10.2307 / 485439 , JSTOR : 485439 (English).
  • Rethinking the Relationship of Anthropology to Science and Religion . In: Karla Poewe (Ed.): Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture . University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, South Carolina 1994, ISBN 978-0-87249-996-6 , pp. 234-258 (English).
  • From Volk to Apartheid: The dialectic between German and Afrikaner nationalism . In: Ulrich van der Heyden, Heike Liebau (eds.): Mission history, church history, world history: Christian missions in the context of national developments in Africa, Asia and Oceania . 1st edition. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 978-3-515-06732-4 , p. 191-213 (English).
  • Irving Hexham, Karla Poewe: "Unconstitutional": Church, State, And New Religions In Germany . In: Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions . tape 2 , no. 2 , January 1, 1999, p. 208–227 , doi : 10.1525 / no.1999.2.2.208 (English).
  • Scientific neo ‐ paganism and the extreme right then and today: From Ludendorff 's Gotterwissennis to Sigrid Hunke's Europe's own religion . In: Journal of Contemporary Religion . tape 14 , no. 3 , October 1999, p. 387-400 , doi : 10.1080 / 13537909908580877 (English).
  • The Spell of National Socialism: The Berlin Mission's Opposition to, and Compromise with, the Völkisch Movement and National Socialism: Knak, Braun, and Weichert . In: Ulrich van der Heyden, Jürgen Becher (ed.): Mission and violence: The handling of Christian missions with violence and the spread of Christianity in Africa and Asia in the period from 1792 to 1918/19 . 1st edition. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 978-3-515-07624-1 , p. 268-290 (English).
  • Politically Compromised Scholars, or What German Scholars Working under Missions, National Socialism, and the Marxist-Leninist German Democratic Republic Can Teach Us . In: American Anthropologist . tape 103 , no. 3 , 2001, p. 834-837 , JSTOR : 683629 (English).
  • Liberalism, German Missionaries, and National Socialism: Diedrich Westermannm, Martin Jäckel, and Jakob Wilhelm Hauer . In: Ulrich van der Heyden, Holger Stoecker (Hrsg.): Mission and power in the change of political orientations: European mission societies in political areas of tension in Africa and Asia between 1800 and 1945 . 1st edition. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 978-3-515-08423-9 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Publications - Karla Poewe. April 2008, accessed February 7, 2017 .
  2. ^ Childhood in Germany During World War II. 1988.
  3. ↑ Jayne Pettit: City in Flames, The Story of Karla Poewe . In: A Time to Fight Back . HMH Books for Young Readers, Boston 1996, ISBN 978-0-395-76504-3 , pp. 39-57 (English).
  4. ↑ Who is Karla Poewe. people.ucalgary.ca, 2010, accessed February 7, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Elizabeth Lumley (Ed.): Canadian Who's Who 1996 . University of Toronto Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0-8020-4993-3 , pp. 981 (English).
  6. ^ Reflections of a Woman Anthropologist: No Hiding Place. 1982.
  7. ^ Matrilineal Ideology: Male Female Dynamics in Luapula, Zambia . 1981.
  8. ↑ Martha Ward: General / Theoretical Anthropology: Reflections of a Woman Anthropologist: No Hiding Place. Manda Cesara . In: American Anthropologist . tape 87 , no. 2 , June 1, 1985, ISSN  1548-1433 , pp. 476–478 , doi : 10.1525 / aa.1985.87.2.02a00810 (English).
  9. ↑ Margaret M. Poloma: Review of Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture . In: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion . tape 34 , no. 2 , June 1995, p. 274-275 , doi : 10.2307 / 1386777 , JSTOR : 1386777 (English).
  10. ^ Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture. 1994.
  11. ^ A b New Religions and the Nazis. 2006.

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personal data
SURNAME Poewe, Karla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Manda Cesara (pseudonym); Poewe, Karla Olga (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Canadian anthropologist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg , East Prussia