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Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. Anniversary addresses
Author: An Address Delivered in South Hadley, Mass., July 24, 1839, at the Second Anniversary of the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
Author: Rufus AndersonA Hundred Years of Mount Holyoke College
Author: Arthur Charles ColeAmerican Women in Mission
Author: Dana Lee RobertPublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865545496
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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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.
The Biblical repositor (and quarterly observer) [afterw.] The American biblical repository [afterw.] The biblical repository and classical review, conducted by E. Robinson. [With] General index, January 1831-October 1844
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Author: Edward RobinsonLibrary Bulletin
Author: Somerville Public Library (Mass.).Publisher:
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Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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America Annuals of Education. V. 1-4, Jan. 18260-Dec. 1829; New Ser., V. 1, No. 1-5, Jan.-July 1830; 3d Ser., V.1-9, Aug. 1830-Dec. 1839
Author: William RussellPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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The American Biblical Repository
Author: American Annals of Education
Author: Mary Lyon and the Mount Holyoke Missionaries
Author: Amanda PorterfieldPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195113012
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
American women played in important part in Protestant foreign missionary work from its early days at the beginning of the nineteenth century, enabling them not only to disseminate religious principles but also to break into public life and create expanded opportunities for themselves and other women. No institution was more closely associated with women missionaries that Mount Holyoke College. This book examines Mount Holyoke founder Mary Lyon and the missionary women trained by her. Porterfield sees Lyon and her students as representative of dominant trends in American missionary thought before the Civil War. She focuses on how their activities in several parts of the world--particularly northwest Persia, Maharashtra in western India, and Natal in southeast Africa--and shows that while their primary goals remained elusive, antebellum missionary women made major contributions to cultural change and the development of new cultures.