Women and Missions: Past and Present

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

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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. The book consists of two parts. The first part looks at nineteenth-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. The fascinating debates are very relevant to the ordination of women issue of today. 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 longer section asks whether women missionaries are indeed a special case, and provides some fascinating studies from both historical and contemporary material of the impact of Christian missions on women. 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 utilised and developed in sometimes unexpected ways.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 145mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780854967384
• ISBN-10: 0854967389
• Artikelnr.: 21296375

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