ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book highlights the ways in which upheaval and change lent concrete local form to the oft-discussed 'global'. The interactions in which the Wotjobaluk people participated were most intimately framed by the connection between mission and empire. Wilhelm Gustav Werner Volk described this transformation in the context of rival churches. The Lebensbilder represent an extraordinary text production on conversions, much as in the case of Volk. Both Volk and Hermann Theodor Wangemann experimented with genres. In the Moravians' wider society of origin, in Germany, a marked gender-hierarchical order existed in the nineteenth century, which proceeded from a polar model of the sexes and assigned different traits and spheres of action to men and women. Ruth Mampatshe was one of the king's aunts and as an acknowledged '; mother of the king' she was needed to legitimise the new Christian community.
