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Karla Poewe

January 23, 2023

Karla Poewe (born 1941) is an anthropologist and historian. She is the author of ten academic books and fifty peer reviewed articles in international journals.[1] Currently Poewe is Professor Emeritus in Anthropology at the University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada and Adjunct Research Professor at Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, England. She is married to Irving Hexham.

Karla Poewe

Biography

Born 1941 in Königsberg, East Prussia, Poewe became a refugee at the age of three after 189 Lancaster bombers from No. 5 Group of the British RAF dropped 480 tons of bombs on the city centre.[2] Her family was moved to a small estate in Poland, staying several weeks before being moved again. Almost six months later they found themselves in the vicinity of Dresden just in time for the bombing. From Dresden they were moved to Plauen in Saxony and eventually spent three years in Werdau before walking over 250 miles, after the death of Poewe's father, to cross into the British Zone near Göttingen. From there they went to the small town of Buxtehude. Poewe's memories of this period were published as Childhood in Germany during World War II (1988).[3]

Poewe worked as an air hostess with Trans-Canada Airlines before entering the University of Toronto where she won several prestigious scholarships.[4] Originally planning to study medicine, she switched to Anthropology. After completing her B.A. she enrolled in a Ph.D. program at the University of New Mexico where Harry Basehart was her thesis supervisor. Poewe studied for a while with John Middleton at New York University and learned Swahili and Bemba at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The fieldwork for her Ph.D. thesis was carried out in Zambia.[5]

Career

After the completion of her thesis she taught for a year at the University of Toronto before moving to the University of Lethbridge in Alberta.[4] She then carried out further fieldwork funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada in Namibia.[4] During this time she published her first book, Matrilineal Ideology (1981),[6] followed by Reflections of a Woman Anthropologist (1982). This book, which helped pioneer a new genre of anthropological writing, was, at the publisher's insistence, published under the pseudonym Manda Cesara.[7]

After Poewe married Irving Hexham the two co-authored Understanding Cults and New Religions (1986) and New Religions as Global Cultures (1997). Poewe began fieldwork in South Africa where she studied the rise of Charismatic Christian Churches and the relationship of their members to apartheid. This ground-breaking work resulted in an International Conference held at the University of Calgary in 1993 on the topic of Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture,[8] which led to the publication of a book with the same title.[9]

Poewe's fieldwork in South Africa came to an end in 1989 when a close friend, the Rt. Rev. Londa Shembe, leader of one branch of the Zulu African Independent Church amaNazaretha, was assassinated and two other friends were also murdered. These tragedies led Poewe to redirect her research interests to looking at the role of missionaries in the areas of Africa where she had studied. The fall of the Berlin Wall enabled her to freely access the archives of the Berlin Mission Society. While working in these archives in 1995 she discovered a large amount of material dealing with conflicts between members of the Berlin Mission and National Socialists.[10]

This material provided the basis for a new project concerning the role of religions in the rise of National Socialism which took almost ten years to complete and resulted in her latest book, New Religions and the Nazis (2006).[11] Currently Poewe is studying the treatment of German refugees following the end of World War II and is interested in the impact of defeat on the defeated.[12]

Works

  • Matrilineal Ideology: Male Female Dynamics in Luapula, Zambia. London: Academic Press. 1981.
  • (under pseudonym Manda Cesara) Reflections of a Woman Anthropologist: No Hiding Place. London & New York: Academic Press. 1982.
  • The Namibian Herero: A History of Their Psychosocial Disintegration and Survival. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press. 1985.
  • (with Irving Hexham) Understanding Cults and New Religions. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. 1986.
  • Childhood in Germany during World War II: The Story of a Little Girl. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press. 1988.
  • Religion, Kinship, and Economy in Luapula, Zambia. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press. 1989.
  • Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press. 1994.
  • (with Irving Hexham) New Religions as Global Cultures: Making the Human Sacred. Boulder: Westview Press. 1997.
  • New Religions and the Nazis, Oxford, Routledge. 2006.
Selected academic papers by Karla Poewe
  • "Religion, Matriliny and Change: Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh‑Day Adventists in Luapula, Zambia", in: American Ethnologist (Washington), Vol. 5, No. 2 May 1978, pp. 301‑321.
  • "Matriliny and Capitalism: the Development of Incipient Classes in Luapula, Zambia", in: Dialectical Anthropology (Amsterdam), 1978, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 331‑347.
  • "Matrilineal Ideology: The Economic Role of Women in Luapula, Zambia", in: The Versatility of Kinship: Studies in Anthropology, edited by L. Cordell and S. Beckerman, Academic Press (London), 1980, pp 333‑357.
  • "Strange Pain: Textual Expressions from Africa and the Caribbean", lead paper in: Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly, Special Issue, (Washington), 1985, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 91‑99.
  • "On the Metonymic Structure of Religious Experiences: The Example of Charismatic Christianity", lead paper in: Cultural Dynamics (Amsterdam), 1989, Vol. II, No.4, pp. 361‑380.
  • "Theologies of Black South Africans and the Rhetoric of Peace versus Violence", Canadian Journal of African Studies, (Ottawa) Vol. 27, No. 1, 1993, pp. 43–65.
  • "Rethinking the Relationship of Anthropology to Science and Religion", in: Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture, edited by Karla Poewe, University of South Carolina Press (Columbia, South Carolina), 1994, pp. 234–258.
  • "From Volk to Apartheid: The Dialectic Between German and Afrikaner Nationalism", in Missionsgeschichte - Kirchengeschichte - Weltgeschichte [Mission History-Church History-World History], edited by Ulrich van der Heyden/Heike Liebau, Franz Steiner Verlag, (Stuttgart), 1996, pp. 191–213.
  • "‘Verfassungsfeindlich’: Church, State and New Religions in Germany." Irving Hexham and Karla Poewe. Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 2 (2), April 1999, pp. 208-227.
  • "Scientific Neo-Paganism and the Extreme Right then and today: from Ludendorff’s 'Gotterkenntnis' to Sigrid Hunke’s 'Europas Eigene Religion'." In Journal of Contemporary Religion 14 (3), October 1999, pp. 387–400.
  • "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 und Juergen Becher, Eds. "Mission und Gewalt: Der Umgang christlicher Missionen mit Gewalt und die Ausbreitung des Christentums in Afrika und Asien". (Missionsgeschichtliches Archiv, Band 6) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000, pp. 268–290.
  • "Politically Compromised Scholars or What German Scholars Working under Missions, National Socialism, and the Marxist Leninist German Democratic Republic Can Teach Us". American Anthropologist 2001 103 (3): 834-837.
  • "Liberalism, German Missionaries, and National Socialism: Diedrich Westermannm, Martin Jäckel, and Jakob Wilhelm Hauer". In: Ulrich van der Heyden, Mission und Macht im Wandel politischer Orientierungen: Europäische Missionsgesellschaften in politischen Spannungsfeldern, in Afrika und Asien zwischen 1800 und 1945. Franz Steiner Verlag, Volume 10, March 2005: pp. 1–30.

Notes

  1. ^ Publications- Karla Poewe, April 2008
  2. ^ Karla Poewe, Childhood in Germany During World War II, Lewiston, Edwin Mellen Press, 1988.
  3. ^ Pettit, Jayne, "A Time to Fight Back," Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co, 1996, chapter three: "City in Flames, The Story of Karla Poewe," pp. 39-57
  4. ^ a b c Elizabeth Lumley, ed., Canadian Who's Who, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1996, p981
  5. ^ Manda Cesare, Reflections of a Woman Anthropologist: No Hiding Place. London & New York: Academic Press. 1982)
  6. ^ Karla Poewe, Matrilineal Ideology: Male Female Dynamics in Luapula, Zambia. London: Academic Press. 1981.
  7. ^ Martha Ward, Review of Reflections of a Woman Anthropologist, in The American Anthropologist, Vol. 87, No. 2 (Jun., 1985), pp. 476-478. The pseudonymous writing of "Manda Cesara" is discussed in Wengle, John L., "Ethnographers in the Field," Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1988, chapter six, "Death and Rebirth in Fieldwork: An Archetypal Case," pp. 130-150.
  8. ^ Margaret Poloma, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Jun., 1995), pp. 274-275
  9. ^ Karla Poewe, ed., Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press. 1994.
  10. ^ Karla Poewe, New Religions and the Nazis, Oxford, Routledge. 2006:x-xi.
  11. ^ Karla Poewe 2006.
  12. ^ Karla Poewe, review of The War in the Empty Air. Dagmar Barnouw 2006, Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Ethnos 2007, 72 (4): 567-8.

External links

  • Karla Poewe, University of Calgary.
  • New Religions and the Nazis website
  • Review of New Religions and the Nazis by Steigmann-Gall and Poewe's response, H-net
  • Nazi New Religions, Pt 1 and Nazi New Religions, Pt 2 — transcripts of an interview of Poewe by Rachel Kohn concerning New Religions and the Nazis on the Radio National program "The Ark"

January 23, 2023
karla, poewe, born, 1941, anthropologist, historian, author, academic, books, fifty, peer, reviewed, articles, international, journals, currently, poewe, professor, emeritus, anthropology, university, calgary, calgary, alberta, canada, adjunct, research, profe. Karla Poewe born 1941 is an anthropologist and historian She is the author of ten academic books and fifty peer reviewed articles in international journals 1 Currently Poewe is Professor Emeritus in Anthropology at the University of Calgary Calgary Alberta Canada and Adjunct Research Professor at Liverpool Hope University Liverpool England She is married to Irving Hexham Karla Poewe Contents 1 Biography 1 1 Career 2 Works 3 Notes 4 External linksBiography EditBorn 1941 in Konigsberg East Prussia Poewe became a refugee at the age of three after 189 Lancaster bombers from No 5 Group of the British RAF dropped 480 tons of bombs on the city centre 2 Her family was moved to a small estate in Poland staying several weeks before being moved again Almost six months later they found themselves in the vicinity of Dresden just in time for the bombing From Dresden they were moved to Plauen in Saxony and eventually spent three years in Werdau before walking over 250 miles after the death of Poewe s father to cross into the British Zone near Gottingen From there they went to the small town of Buxtehude Poewe s memories of this period were published as Childhood in Germany during World War II 1988 3 Poewe worked as an air hostess with Trans Canada Airlines before entering the University of Toronto where she won several prestigious scholarships 4 Originally planning to study medicine she switched to Anthropology After completing her B A she enrolled in a Ph D program at the University of New Mexico where Harry Basehart was her thesis supervisor Poewe studied for a while with John Middleton at New York University and learned Swahili and Bemba at the University of Wisconsin Madison The fieldwork for her Ph D thesis was carried out in Zambia 5 Career Edit After the completion of her thesis she taught for a year at the University of Toronto before moving to the University of Lethbridge in Alberta 4 She then carried out further fieldwork funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada in Namibia 4 During this time she published her first book Matrilineal Ideology 1981 6 followed by Reflections of a Woman Anthropologist 1982 This book which helped pioneer a new genre of anthropological writing was at the publisher s insistence published under the pseudonym Manda Cesara 7 After Poewe married Irving Hexham the two co authored Understanding Cults and New Religions 1986 and New Religions as Global Cultures 1997 Poewe began fieldwork in South Africa where she studied the rise of Charismatic Christian Churches and the relationship of their members to apartheid This ground breaking work resulted in an International Conference held at the University of Calgary in 1993 on the topic of Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture 8 which led to the publication of a book with the same title 9 Poewe s fieldwork in South Africa came to an end in 1989 when a close friend the Rt Rev Londa Shembe leader of one branch of the Zulu African Independent Church amaNazaretha was assassinated and two other friends were also murdered These tragedies led Poewe to redirect her research interests to looking at the role of missionaries in the areas of Africa where she had studied The fall of the Berlin Wall enabled her to freely access the archives of the Berlin Mission Society While working in these archives in 1995 she discovered a large amount of material dealing with conflicts between members of the Berlin Mission and National Socialists 10 This material provided the basis for a new project concerning the role of religions in the rise of National Socialism which took almost ten years to complete and resulted in her latest book New Religions and the Nazis 2006 11 Currently Poewe is studying the treatment of German refugees following the end of World War II and is interested in the impact of defeat on the defeated 12 Works EditMatrilineal Ideology Male Female Dynamics in Luapula Zambia London Academic Press 1981 under pseudonym Manda Cesara Reflections of a Woman Anthropologist No Hiding Place London amp New York Academic Press 1982 The Namibian Herero A History of Their Psychosocial Disintegration and Survival Lewiston New York Edwin Mellen Press 1985 with Irving Hexham Understanding Cults and New Religions Grand Rapids Eerdmans 1986 Childhood in Germany during World War II The Story of a Little Girl Lewiston New York Edwin Mellen Press 1988 Religion Kinship and Economy in Luapula Zambia Lewiston New York Edwin Mellen Press 1989 Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture Columbia SC University of South Carolina Press 1994 with Irving Hexham New Religions as Global Cultures Making the Human Sacred Boulder Westview Press 1997 New Religions and the Nazis Oxford Routledge 2006 Selected academic papers by Karla Poewe Religion Matriliny and Change Jehovah s Witnesses and Seventh Day Adventists in Luapula Zambia in American Ethnologist Washington Vol 5 No 2 May 1978 pp 301 321 Matriliny and Capitalism the Development of Incipient Classes in Luapula Zambia in Dialectical Anthropology Amsterdam 1978 Vol 3 No 4 pp 331 347 Matrilineal Ideology The Economic Role of Women in Luapula Zambia in The Versatility of Kinship Studies in Anthropology edited by L Cordell and S Beckerman Academic Press London 1980 pp 333 357 Strange Pain Textual Expressions from Africa and the Caribbean lead paper in Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly Special Issue Washington 1985 Vol 10 No 4 pp 91 99 On the Metonymic Structure of Religious Experiences The Example of Charismatic Christianity lead paper in Cultural Dynamics Amsterdam 1989 Vol II No 4 pp 361 380 Theologies of Black South Africans and the Rhetoric of Peace versus Violence Canadian Journal of African Studies Ottawa Vol 27 No 1 1993 pp 43 65 Rethinking the Relationship of Anthropology to Science and Religion in Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture edited by Karla Poewe University of South Carolina Press Columbia South Carolina 1994 pp 234 258 From Volk to Apartheid The Dialectic Between German and Afrikaner Nationalism in Missionsgeschichte Kirchengeschichte Weltgeschichte Mission History Church History World History edited by Ulrich van der Heyden Heike Liebau Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart 1996 pp 191 213 Verfassungsfeindlich Church State and New Religions in Germany Irving Hexham and Karla Poewe Nova Religio The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 2 2 April 1999 pp 208 227 Scientific Neo Paganism and the Extreme Right then and today from Ludendorff s Gotterkenntnis to Sigrid Hunke s Europas Eigene Religion In Journal of Contemporary Religion 14 3 October 1999 pp 387 400 The Spell of National Socialism The Berlin Mission s Opposition to and Compromise with the Volkisch Movement and National Socialism Knak Braun and Weichert In Ulrich van der Heyden und Juergen Becher Eds Mission und Gewalt Der Umgang christlicher Missionen mit Gewalt und die Ausbreitung des Christentums in Afrika und Asien Missionsgeschichtliches Archiv Band 6 Stuttgart Franz Steiner Verlag 2000 pp 268 290 Politically Compromised Scholars or What German Scholars Working under Missions National Socialism and the Marxist Leninist German Democratic Republic Can Teach Us American Anthropologist 2001 103 3 834 837 Liberalism German Missionaries and National Socialism Diedrich Westermannm Martin Jackel and Jakob Wilhelm Hauer In Ulrich van der Heyden Mission und Macht im Wandel politischer Orientierungen Europaische Missionsgesellschaften in politischen Spannungsfeldern in Afrika und Asien zwischen 1800 und 1945 Franz Steiner Verlag Volume 10 March 2005 pp 1 30 Notes Edit Publications Karla Poewe April 2008 Karla Poewe Childhood in Germany During World War II Lewiston Edwin Mellen Press 1988 Pettit Jayne A Time to Fight Back Boston Houghton Mifflin Co 1996 chapter three City in Flames The Story of Karla Poewe pp 39 57 a b c Elizabeth Lumley ed Canadian Who s Who Toronto University of Toronto Press 1996 p981 Manda Cesare Reflections of a Woman Anthropologist No Hiding Place London amp New York Academic Press 1982 Karla Poewe Matrilineal Ideology Male Female Dynamics in Luapula Zambia London Academic Press 1981 Martha Ward Review of Reflections of a Woman Anthropologist in The American Anthropologist Vol 87 No 2 Jun 1985 pp 476 478 The pseudonymous writing of Manda Cesara is discussed in Wengle John L Ethnographers in the Field Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press 1988 chapter six Death and Rebirth in Fieldwork An Archetypal Case pp 130 150 Margaret Poloma Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion Vol 34 No 2 Jun 1995 pp 274 275 Karla Poewe ed Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture Columbia SC University of South Carolina Press 1994 Karla Poewe New Religions and the Nazis Oxford Routledge 2006 x xi Karla Poewe 2006 Karla Poewe review of The War in the Empty Air Dagmar Barnouw 2006 Bloomington Indiana University Press Ethnos 2007 72 4 567 8 External links EditKarla Poewe University of Calgary New Religions and the Nazis website Review of New Religions and the Nazis by Steigmann Gall and Poewe s response H net Nazi New Religions Pt 1 and Nazi New Religions Pt 2 transcripts of an interview of Poewe by Rachel Kohn concerning New Religions and the Nazis on the Radio National program The Ark Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Karla Poewe amp oldid 1131310482, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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