Women And Missions Past And Present

Author : Shirley Ardener,Fiona Bowie,Deborah Kirkwood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000323221

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Women and Missions: Past and Present by Shirley Ardener,Fiona Bowie,Deborah Kirkwood Pdf

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.

Author : Dana Lee Robert
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0865545499

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American Women in Mission by Dana Lee Robert Pdf

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.

Author : Leanne M. Dzubinski,Anneke H. Stasson
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493429189

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Women in the Mission of the Church by Leanne M. Dzubinski,Anneke H. Stasson Pdf

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.

Author : Maina Chawla Singh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815328249

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Gender, Religion, and the "heathen Lands" by Maina Chawla Singh Pdf

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Christine Lienemann-Perrin,Atola Longkumer,Afrie Songco Joye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1426758391

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Putting Names with Faces by Christine Lienemann-Perrin,Atola Longkumer,Afrie Songco Joye Pdf

Women have participated in Christian mission work since the beginning of Christianity. Few of their names are known to us; others are identified as spouses or coworkers of men in mission; and many remain completely anonymous. Putting Names with Faces addresses this disparity and attempts to do justice to at least some of the women who have contributed tremendously to the missionary endeavor in past and present times on all continents. It is an attempt to put names to these otherwise unknown faces and to honor their significant, but untold, contributions throughout the history of mission. Thoughtful, eye-opening, expansive, and humbling, Putting Names with Faces is a book you will not be able to forget.

Author : Mary Taylor Huber,Nancy Lutkehaus
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0472109871

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Gendered Missions by Mary Taylor Huber,Nancy Lutkehaus Pdf

Explores the roles and expectations of women and men in Christian missionary experience

Author : Julia Hauser
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004290785

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German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut by Julia Hauser Pdf

In German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut. Competing Missions, Julia Hauser offers a critical analysis of the German Protestant Kaiserswerth deaconesses’ establishment in late Ottoman Beirut as situated within the larger field of educational development in the city.

Author : Judith Berling
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780819228048

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Anglican Women on Church and Mission by Judith Berling Pdf

In the past several decades, the issues of women’s ordination and of homosexuality have unleashed intense debates on the nature and mission of the Church, authority and the future of the Anglican Communion. Amid such momentous debates, theological voices of women in the Anglican Communion have not been clearly heard, until now. This book invites the reader to reconsider the theological basis of the Church and its call to mission in the 21st century, paying special attention to the colonial legacy of the Anglican Church and the shift of Christian demographics to the Global South. In addition to essays by the volume editors, this 12-essay collection includes contributions by Jane Shaw, Ellen Wondra and Beverley Haddad, among others.

Author : Michael Thiel (Eds.) Moritz Fischer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643964137

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Investigations on the "Entangled History" of Colonialism and Mission in a New Perspective by Michael Thiel (Eds.) Moritz Fischer Pdf

Author : Joanna Cruickshank,Patricia Grimshaw
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004397019

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White Women, Aboriginal Missions and Australian Settler Governments by Joanna Cruickshank,Patricia Grimshaw Pdf

In White Women, Aboriginal Missions and Australian Settler Governments, Joanna Cruickshank and Patricia Grimshaw provide the first detailed study of the central part that white women played in missionary work among Aboriginal people in Australia.

Author : Kirsteen Kim,Paul E Pierson Chair in World Christianity and Associate Dean Kirsteen Kim,Knud Jørgensen,Alison Fitchett-Climenhaga
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Missions
ISBN : 9780198831723

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The Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies by Kirsteen Kim,Paul E Pierson Chair in World Christianity and Associate Dean Kirsteen Kim,Knud Jørgensen,Alison Fitchett-Climenhaga Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies represents more than a century of scholarship related to the theology, history, and methodology of the propagation of Christian faith and the engagement of Christians with cultures, religions, and societies worldwide. It contains more than 40 articles by experts from different disciplinary and ecclesial perspectives, who are from all continents. It not only offers a broad overview of key approaches and issues in mission studies but it also highlights current trends and suggests future developments. The Handbook builds on renewed interest in mission studies this century generated by recent key statements on mission from ecumenical, evangelical, Catholic, and Orthodox sources, and by a spate of academic works on the topic. Western church leaders now apply insights from foreign missions (such as, inculturation, liberation, interfaith work, and power encounter) to today's multicultural societies. Meanwhile, there are new initiatives in mission from the Majority World, where most Christians live, so that sending is not only 'from the west to the rest' but 'from everywhere to everywhere'. Therefore, this volume aims to reflect the voices of the receivers of mission as well as its protagonists and to raise awareness of new movements. In a time of growing recognition of 'religions' more generally, this work examines and theorizes the missional dimensions of the world's largest religion: its agendas, growth, outreach, role in public life, effect on cultures, relevance for development, and its approaches to other communities.

Author : Norman Etherington
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199253470

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Missions and Empire by Norman Etherington Pdf

The idea that Christian missions went hand in hand with Imperialism and colonial conquest is challenged here. By showing the variety of missions and the vital role played by indigenous men and women, this book places missions in a long historical perspective. Special attention is paid to emerging themes.

Author : Hilde Nielssen,Inger Marie Okkenhaug,Karina Hestad-Skeie
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004207691

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Protestant Missions and Local Encounters in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Hilde Nielssen,Inger Marie Okkenhaug,Karina Hestad-Skeie Pdf

This book makes visible an important but neglected aspect of Christian missions: its transnational character. Missionaries considered themselves global actors, yet they operated within a variety of nation-states. The volume demonstrates how processes on a national level are closely linked to larger transnational processes.

Author : Rhonda Anne Semple
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1843830132

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Missionary Women by Rhonda Anne Semple Pdf

Under the influence of wise and devoted and spiritually minded colleagues -- She is a lady of much ability and intelligence : the selection and training of candidates -- LMS work in North India : the feeblest work in all of India -- Good temper and common sense are invaluable : the Church of Scotland Eastern Himalayan Mission -- The work of the CIM at Chefoo : faith-filled generations -- Gender and the professionalization of Victorian society : the mission example -- Conclusion: fools for Christ

Author : Elizabeth Dimock
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315392738

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Women, Mission and Church in Uganda by Elizabeth Dimock Pdf

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- A note on orthography and semantics -- A note on primary sources -- Introduction -- PART I Imperial awakenings -- 1 Women, the Church Missionary Society and imperialism -- 2 'In journeyings oft': missionary journeys to and around Uganda at the end of the nineteenth century -- PART II Arrivals -- 3 'Welcome' encounters: early relations with Ugandans -- 4 Female missionaries and moral authority: a case study from Toro -- PART III Mission and Church -- 5 Ugandan women and the Church: generational change -- 6 The experience of women in mission and Church organisations -- 7 Training for motherhood: the Mothers' Union -- PART IV Tensions within -- 8 A Christian women's protest in Buganda in 1931 -- 9 Tensions within the Uganda Mission: gender and patriarchy -- Conclusion: links - 1895-1960s -- Index