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American women in mission : a social history of their thought and practice / Dana L. Robert.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Modern mission era, 1792-1992Publication details: Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, ©1996.Description: xxii, 444 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0865545499
  • 9780865545496
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 266/.02373/0082 21
LOC classification:
  • BV2610 .R63 1996
Contents:
General Introduction / Wilbert R. Shenk -- pt. I. The Foundational Decades: Protestant Women from 1812 to 1860. Ch. 1. The Missionary Wife. Ch. 2. The Missionary Wife: Models and Practice of Mission. Ch. 3. The Missionary Teacher -- pt. II. The Protestant Woman's Missionary Movement: 1860 to the Second World War. Ch. 4. "Woman's Work for Woman" and the Methodist Episcopal Church. Ch. 5. Women and Independent Evangelical Missions. Ch. 6. The Ecumenical Woman's Missionary Movement -- pt. III. Roman Catholic Women in Mission. Ch. 7. The Emergence of Missionary Sisters. Ch. 8. From Auxiliary to Missioner. The Shape of American Women's Mission Thought: A Concluding Note.
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Books Books SAIACS General Stacks Centre for South Asia Research (CSAR) 266.0237 R639A (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C.2 Available TBN- OCT/2016 053884
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-444).

General Introduction / Wilbert R. Shenk -- pt. I. The Foundational Decades: Protestant Women from 1812 to 1860. Ch. 1. The Missionary Wife. Ch. 2. The Missionary Wife: Models and Practice of Mission. Ch. 3. The Missionary Teacher -- pt. II. The Protestant Woman's Missionary Movement: 1860 to the Second World War. Ch. 4. "Woman's Work for Woman" and the Methodist Episcopal Church. Ch. 5. Women and Independent Evangelical Missions. Ch. 6. The Ecumenical Woman's Missionary Movement -- pt. III. Roman Catholic Women in Mission. Ch. 7. The Emergence of Missionary Sisters. Ch. 8. From Auxiliary to Missioner. The Shape of American Women's Mission Thought: A Concluding Note.

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