Author: Welthy Honsinger FisherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Beyond the Moon Gate, Being a Diary of Ten Years in the Interior of the Middle Kingdom
Author: Welthy Honsinger FisherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Beyond the Moon Gate
Author: Welthy Honsinger FisherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The Gospel of Gentility
Author: Jane HunterPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300046038
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
At the turn of the century, women represented over half of the American foreign mission force and had settled in "heathen" China to preach the lessons of Christian domesticity. In this engrossing narrative, Jane Hunter uses diaries, reminiscences, and letters to recreate the backgrounds of the missionaries and the problems and satisfactions they found in China. Her book offers insights not only into the experiences of these women but also into the ways they mirrored the female culture of Victorian America. "A subtle and finely written book... [on] an aspect of the mission world in China that has never before received such probing, affectionate, detailed treatment."--Jonathan Spence, New York Review of Books "An important and often entertaining work....New angles on imperialism and gentility alike."--Martin E. Marty, Reviews in American History "A triumph of sophisticated subtle intelligence. Though quite cognizant of the dark side of the confluence of American nationalism and the missionary enterprise, Hunter's interest is in moving beyond that understanding to explore how the meeting of two cultures affected, and was shaped by, a female angle of vision."--Regina Morantz-Sanchez, Signs "Jane Hunter writes better than most novelists, and she has a topic more demanding and rewarding than the subjects many novelists deal with. Her story of the valiant and ofttimes guilt-ridden women who ventured to China, singly or with spouses, to win the country for Christ creates a world and beckons readers into it."--Christian Century
The China Christian Year Book
Author: The China Christian Year Book
Author: Edwin Carlyle LobenstinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
International Review of Missions
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mission of the church
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Author: Luzac's Oriental List and Book Review
Author: The Far East ...
Author: American Academy of Political and Social SciencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : East Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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.