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Women and missions past and present : anthropological and historical perceptions /
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 presen...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge,
2020.
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| Colección: | Cross-cultural perspectives on women.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Reclaiming women's presence / Fiona Bowie
- Protestant missionary women : wives and spinsters / Deborah Kirkwood
- The missing link : the recruitment of women missionaries in some English Evangelical missionary societies in the nineteenth century / Peter Williams
- Wanted : earnest, self-sacrificing women for service in South Africa : nineteenth-century recruitment of single women to Protestant missions / Cecille Swaisland
- God and nature intended you for a missionary's wife : Mary Hill, Jane Eyre and other missionary women in the 1840s / Valentine Cunningham
- Were women a special case? / Adrian Hastings
- From heathen Kraal to Christian home : Anglican mission education and African Christian girls, 1850-1900 / Modupe Labode
- The elusive Christian family : missionary attempts to define women's roles : case studies from Cameroon / Fiona Bowie
- Mission impact on women in colonial Kenya / Tabitha Kanogo
- Mary Ann Cooke to Mother Teresa : Christian missionary women and the Indian response / Aparna Basu
- Does Christianity empower women? : the case of the Anaguta of central Nigeria / Elizabeth Isichei
- Catholic missionaries and Andean women : mismatching views on gender and creation / Sarah Lund Skar
- These Catholic sisters are all mamas! : celibacy and the metaphor of maternity / Joan F. Burke.