Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Setting the Scene: The Practice of Orthodoxy in Colonial Greenland -- Complicating Governmentality: Colonialism, Protestantism, and Greenland -- The Lutheran Pastorate in Theory and Practice -- Catechists in the Making: Labour, Writing, and Gender -- The Ontological Status of the Hunter or The Production of Nature -- Rewritten Pasts and Scripts for the Future: Heart of Light -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

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The Missionary, the Catechist and the Hunter examines the role of Protestantism in the Danish colonization of Greenland and shows how the process of colonization entails a process of subjectification where the identity of indigenous population is transformed. The figure of the hunter, commonly regarded as quintessential Inuit figure is traced back to the efforts of the Greenlandic intelligentsia to distance themselves from the hunting lifestyle by producing an abstract hunter identity in Greenlandic literature.