Women and Missions: Past and Present - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Missions: Past and Present write by Shirley Ardener. This book was released on 2021-02-25. Women and Missions: Past and Present available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of essays by eminent anthropologists, missiologists and historians explores the hitherto neglected topic of women missionaries and the effect of Christian missionary activity upon women. The book consists of two parts. The first part looks at 19th century women missionaries as presented in literature, at the backgrounds and experience of women in the mission field and at the attitudes of missionary societies towards their female workers. Although they are traditionally presented as wives and support workers, it becomes apparent that, on the contrary, women missionaries often played a culturally important role. The second and longest section asks whether women missionaries are indeed a special case, and provides some fascinating studies of the impact of Christian missions on women in both historical material and a wealth of contemporary material.Of particular value is the perspective of those who were themselves objects of missionary activity and who reflected upon this experience. Women actively absorbed and adapted the teachings of the Christian missionaries, and Western models are seen to be utilized and developed in sometimes unexpected ways.
American Women in Mission
American Women in Mission - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Women in Mission write by Dana Lee Robert. This book was released on 1996. American Women in Mission available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The stereotype of the woman missionary has ranged from that of the longsuffering wife, characterized by the epitaph Died, given over to hospitality, to that of the spinster in her unstylish dress and wire-rimmed glasses, alone somewhere for thirty years teaching heathen children. Like all caricatures, those of the exhausted wife and frustrated old maid carry some truth: the underlying message of the sterotypes is that missionary women were perceived as marginal to the central tasks of mission. Rather than being remembered for preaching the gospel, the quintessential male task, missionary women were noted for meeting human needs and helping others, sacrificing themselves without plan or reason, all for the sake of bringing the world to Jesus Christ.Historical evidence, however, gives lie to the truism that women missionaries were and are doers but not thinkers, reactive secondary figures rather than proactive primary ones. The first American women to serve as foreign missionaries in 1812 were among the best-educated women of their time. Although barred from obtaining the college education or ministerial credentials of their husbands, the early missionary wives had read their Jonathan Edwards and Samuel Hopkins. Not only did they go abroad with particular theologies to share, but their identities as women caused them to develop gender-based mission theories. Early nineteenth-century women seldom wrote theologies of mission, but they wrote letters and kept journals that reveal a thought world and set of assumptions about women's roles in the missionary task. The activities of missionary wives were not random: they were part of a mission strategy that gave women a particular role inthe advancement of the reign of God.By moving from mission field to mission field in chronological order of missionary presence, Robert charts missiological developments as they took place in dialogue with the urgent context of the day. Each case study marks the beginning of the mission theory. Baptist women in Burma, for example, are only considered in their first decades there and are not traced into the present. Robert believes that at this early stage of research into women's mission theory, integrity and analysis lies more in a succession of contextualized case studies than in gross generalizations.
Women in the Mission of the Church
Women in the Mission of the Church - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women in the Mission of the Church write by Leanne M. Dzubinski. This book was released on 2021-04-20. Women in the Mission of the Church available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Women have been central to the work of Christian ministry from the time of Jesus to the twenty-first century. Yet the story of Christianity is too often told as a story of men. This accessibly written book tells the story of women throughout church history, demonstrating their integral participation in the church's mission. It highlights the legacies of a wide variety of women, showing how they have overcome obstacles to their ministries and have transformed cultural constraints to spread the gospel and build the church.
Gender, Religion, and the "heathen Lands"
Gender, Religion, and the "heathen Lands" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender, Religion, and the "heathen Lands" write by Maina Chawla Singh. This book was released on 2000. Gender, Religion, and the "heathen Lands" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Historical Sketches of Womans' Missionary Societies in America and England
Historical Sketches of Womans' Missionary Societies in America and England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Historical Sketches of Womans' Missionary Societies in America and England write by Mrs. L. H. Daggett. This book was released on 1879. Historical Sketches of Womans' Missionary Societies in America and England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
