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1. Introduction: More than the sum of its parts: David Cranz's Historie von GrönlandFelicity Jensz and Christina Petterson
Part I: Religious context and reception2. Moravians in Greenland: Barren Shores and Fruitful Missions- Christina Petterson 3. David Cranz' History of Greenland and Physico-Theology- Kathrine Kjærgaard
Part II: English-language Reception and Print Culture 4. "a collection of absurdities" Reception of two English versions of Cranz's book in Britain, 1767 & 1820- Felicity Jensz5. Unbecoming Heretics: Knowledge, Missionary Stories, and the Legacy of David Cranz in North America- Jared Burkholder
Part III: Scientific Importance and Influence6. Circulation of Arctic Knowledge among German Protestants in the 18th century - The example of David Cranz´s Historie von Grönland- Joanna Kodzik7. Early Meteorological Observations in Greenland: The Contributions of David Cranz, Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein and Christopher Brasen- Gaston Demarée and Astrid Elisabeth Ogilvie8. Greenland in Hungary: Inuit Culture and the Emergence of the Science of Anthropology in Late Eighteenth - Early Nineteenth Century Hungary- Ildikó SzKristof9. The Soul of the Arctic. David Cranz's account of the religion or superstitions of the Greenlanders and its impact on 19th Century descriptions of religion in Greenland- Åmund Norum Resløkken
Part IV: Cranz and the Medium of Missions10. The "United Brethren" and Johann Gerhard König-Cranz's Historie von Grönland as an avenue to the natural history of India- Thomas Ruhland11. Cranz's Greenland as a Steeping Stone to Labrador: Tracing the Profile of the Inuit- Thea Olsthoorn
Part V: The Post-colonial Cranz 12. Cranz Revisited: Greenland in Greenland- Claire McLiskey13. Appendix: David Cranz's Lebenslauf- Paul Peucker