Author: American Ceylon MissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Brief Sketch of the American Ceylon Mission
Author: American Ceylon MissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Report of the Ceylon Mission of the American Board
Author: American Ceylon MissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The Company of Them that Publish
Author: AMERICAN CEYLON MISSION PRESS.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Historical Sketch of the Ceylon Mission
Author: William Ware HowlandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ceylon
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Historical Sketch of the Missions of the American Board in India and Ceylon
Author: Samuel Colcord BartlettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
The Ceylon Mission, 1816-1896
Author: Samuel W. HowlandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Historical Sketch of the Missions of the American Board in India and Ceylon
Author: Samuel Colcord BartlettPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385508479
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
The Ceylon Mission, 1816-1899
Author: Samuel W. HowlandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
American Women in Mission
Author: Dana Lee RobertPublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865545496
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
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.
Going to School in South Asia
Author: Amita GuptaPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313088772
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Afghanistan is one of many South Asian countries appearing in daily headlines, as it attempts to rebuild its society, including its educational system, after decades of war. Sri Lanka, devastated by the tsunami of 2004, and parts of Pakistan and Northern India, coping with the aftereffects of a major earthquake, are also also struggling for teachers, classrooms, supplies, and a sense of normalcy for their students. This volume, part of the Schooling Around the World series, provides readers with a history and survey of education in eight of the region's countries. It examines the Primary, Secondary, and Postsecondary levels of education, identifying the types of education available (public, private, tutoring, etc), any race, gender or social class issues that impact education, and major reforms taking place. Readers will find discussions of curriculum and teaching methods most helpful, as well as a special day in the life feature, which gives a personal look at what it's like for students attending school in that country today.