Women and Missions: Past and Present (eBook, PDF)

Anthropological and Historical Perceptions
Redaktion: Ardener, Shirley; Kirkwood, Deborah; Bowie, Fiona

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000325010
• Artikelnr.: 61172568

Autorenporträt

Fiona Bowie Lecturer in Women's Studies,Open University and Lecturer in the Anthropology of Religion, University of Wales, Lampeter Deborah Kirkwood Independent Researcher Mrs Shirley Ardener Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, University of Oxford

Inhaltsangabe

F. Bowie, Introduction: Reclaiming Women's Presence - Part I: Women
Missionaries - D. Kirkwood, Protestant Missionary Women: Wives and
Spinsters - P. Williams, The 'Missing Link': The Recruitment of Women
Missionaries in Some English Evangelical Missionary Societies in the
Nineteenth Century - C. Swaisland, Wanted: Earnest, Self-Sacrificing Women
for Service in South Africa: Nineteenth-Century Recruitment of Single Women
to Protestant Missions - V. Cunningham, 'God and Nature Intended You for a
Missionary's Wife': Mary Hill, Jane Eyre and Other Missionary Women in the
1840s - Part II: Mission Impact on Women - A. Hastings, Were Women a
Special Case? - M. Lapodi, From Heathen Kraal to Christian Home: Anglican
Mission Education and African Christian Girls, 1850-1900 - F. Bowie, The
Elusive Christian Family: Missionary Attempts to Define Women's Roles: Case
Studies from Cameroon - T. Kanogo, Mission Impact on Women in Colonial
Kenya - A. Basu, Mary Ann Cooke to Mother Teresa: Christian Missionary
Women and Indian Response - E. Isichei, Does Christianity Empower Women?
The Case of the Anaguta of Central Nigeria - S. Lund Skar, Catholic
Missionaries and Andean Women: Mismatching Views on Gender and Creation -
J. Burke, These Catholic Sisters Are All Mamas! Celibacy and the Metaphor
of Maternity