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Preliminary material /Editors Migration and Religion -- RELIGION AND MIGRATION: CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES IN NORTH AMERICA, MUSLIM POPULATIONS IN GERMANY /Barbara Becker-Cantarino -- THEOLOGICAL TENETS AND MOTIVES OF MISSION: AUGUST HERMANN FRANCKE, NIKOLAUS LUDWIG VON ZINZENDORF /Wolfgang Breul -- INDIANS OBSERVED: MORAVIAN MISSIONARY JOHN HECKEWELDER'S ACCOUNT OF THE HISTORY, MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS OF THE INDIAN NATIONS (1819) /Pia Schmid -- REMAPPING THE WORLD: THE VISION OF A PROTESTANT EMPIRE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY /Ulrike Gleixner -- FROM "GERMAN INDIA" TO THE SPANISH INDIES AND BACK: JESUIT MIGRATIONS ABROAD AND THEIR EFFECTS AT HOME /Ulrike Strasser -- "A SOURCE OF PRAISE": THE WANDERINGS OF A DEVOTIONAL BOOK /Cornelia Niekus Moore -- ISLAM DEBATES AROUND 1900: COLONIES IN AFRICA, MUSLIMS IN BERLIN, AND THE ROLE OF MISSIONARIES AND ORIENTALISTS /Rebekka Habermas -- CHRISTIAN UNIVERSALISM? RACISM AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY IN TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY IMMIGRATION DISCOURSES /Claudia Breger -- "YOU PRAY LIKE WE HAVE FUN": TOWARD A PHENOMENOLOGY OF SECULAR ISLAM /David Gramling -- IRANIAN, AFGHAN, AND PAKISTANI MIGRANTS IN GERMANY: MUSLIM POPULATIONS BEYOND TURKS AND ARABS /Kamaal Haque -- MOSQUE DEBATES AS A SPACE-RELATED, INTERCULTURAL, AND RELIGIOUS CONFLICT /Thomas Schmitt -- MUSLIM MIGRATION TO GERMANY: A RESPONSE TO THILO SARRAZIN'S DEUTSCHLAND SCHAFFT SICH AB /Karl Ivan Solibakke -- CONTRIBUTORS /Editors Migration and Religion -- INDEX /Editors Migration and Religion.

The discourse on writing and sexual difference in German Romanticism functions as a discourse of censorship. A philosophical justification for excluding women from the "author function" (Foucault) and for subjecting their writing to male control was elaborated by Fichte in The Science of Rights . Goethe and other men of letters developed aesthetic norms for women's writing that were based on a male perspective of appropriate gender roles for women. Women authors' self-representation and literary activity were shaped by gender censorship that they were able to subvert only superficially by such means as public disclaimers, accommodation to male-defined standards, and anonymous or pseudonymous publication. (JC)

Originating from a panel discussion at the Germanistentag 1991 in Augsburg, my position paper highlights recent developments in feminist studies and German literature with an eye towards historicizing gender, using the example of early modern German literature. I then present a six-point proposal for feminist studies (in regard to German literature), pleading for a continued feminist revision of literary interpretations, especially of "canonical" texts, and for a reconstruction of women's role in literature in order to newly conceive and write its history. Pointing to the obfuscation inherent in the ontological pursuit of Weiblichkeit (femininity), I argue for an open, relational concept of gender in a socio-historical frame, for further critical exploration of the complex power and bonding structures of patriarchy, and for an assessment of the increasing feminization of literary studies and the entire educational-cultural sector. (B.B.-C.)