Author: Miron Winslow
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780795045585
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Memoir of Mrs Harriet L. Winslow, of the American Mission in Ceylon
Author: Miron Winslow
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780795045585
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780795045585
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
A Looking-glass for Ladies
Author: Lisa Joy Pruitt
Publisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865548886
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Lisa Joy Pruitt offers a new look at women's involvement in the mission movement, with a welcome focus on the often overlooked antebellum era. Most scholars have argued that the emergence of women as a dominant force in American Protestant missions in the late nineteenth-century was an outgrowth of nascent feminist activism in the various denominations. This new contribution suggests that the feminization of the later mission movement actually stemmed in large part from images of the "degraded Oriental woman" that popular evangelical literature had been circulating since the 1790s, and that the increasing focus on and involvement of women was supported by male denominational leaders as an important strategy for reaching the world with the Christian gospel. In the late eighteenth through the early nineteenth-centuries, popular evangelical literature began circulating descriptions of women of the "Orient" designed to illustrate the need of those women for the Christian gospel. Such powerful and widely disseminated images demonstrated to young American women their relatively privileged position in society and, throughout the nineteenth-century, led many to support the cause of missions with their money and sometimes their lives. A belief in the desperate need of "Oriental" women for salvation and social uplift was largely responsible for feminizing the American Protestant foreign mission movement. "A Looking-Glass for Ladies": American Protestant Women and the Orient in the Nineteenth Century traces the creation and dissemination of images of women who lived in that part of the world known to nineteenth-century Westerners as the "Orient." It examines the emotional power of those images tocreate sympathy in American women for their "sisters" in Asia. That sympathy catalyzed many evangelical women and men to argue for vocational roles for women, both married and single, in the mission movement. The book demonstrates the ways in which assumptions about the condition and needs of "Oriental" women shaped American evangelical women's self perceptions, as well as the evangelizing strategies of the missionaries and their sending agencies.
Publisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865548886
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Lisa Joy Pruitt offers a new look at women's involvement in the mission movement, with a welcome focus on the often overlooked antebellum era. Most scholars have argued that the emergence of women as a dominant force in American Protestant missions in the late nineteenth-century was an outgrowth of nascent feminist activism in the various denominations. This new contribution suggests that the feminization of the later mission movement actually stemmed in large part from images of the "degraded Oriental woman" that popular evangelical literature had been circulating since the 1790s, and that the increasing focus on and involvement of women was supported by male denominational leaders as an important strategy for reaching the world with the Christian gospel. In the late eighteenth through the early nineteenth-centuries, popular evangelical literature began circulating descriptions of women of the "Orient" designed to illustrate the need of those women for the Christian gospel. Such powerful and widely disseminated images demonstrated to young American women their relatively privileged position in society and, throughout the nineteenth-century, led many to support the cause of missions with their money and sometimes their lives. A belief in the desperate need of "Oriental" women for salvation and social uplift was largely responsible for feminizing the American Protestant foreign mission movement. "A Looking-Glass for Ladies": American Protestant Women and the Orient in the Nineteenth Century traces the creation and dissemination of images of women who lived in that part of the world known to nineteenth-century Westerners as the "Orient." It examines the emotional power of those images tocreate sympathy in American women for their "sisters" in Asia. That sympathy catalyzed many evangelical women and men to argue for vocational roles for women, both married and single, in the mission movement. The book demonstrates the ways in which assumptions about the condition and needs of "Oriental" women shaped American evangelical women's self perceptions, as well as the evangelizing strategies of the missionaries and their sending agencies.
Memoir of Mrs. Harriet L. Winslow
Author: Harriet Lathrop Winslow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Annual Report
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1308
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1308
Book Description
Catalogue of Books Belonging to the Saint Louis Mercantile Library Association, January, 1850
Author: St. Louis Mercantile Library Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subscription libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subscription libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Catalogue of Books belonging to the Saint Louis Mercantile Library Association, etc
Author: Mercantile Library Association (SAINT LOUIS, Missouri)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: American Tract Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tract societies
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tract societies
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
Book Description
Annual Report of the American Tract Society
Author: American Tract Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Catalogue of the Washington State Library ...
Author: Washington State Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Sacred Uncertainty
Author: Brian Yothers
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 081013179X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Yothers’ Sacred Uncertainty examines Melville’s engagement with religious difference, both within American culture and around the world. It is impossible to understand Melville’s wider engagement with religious and cultural questions, however, without understanding the fundamental tension between self and society, self and others that underlies his work, and that is manifested in particular in the way in which he interacts with other writers. There is almost certainly no more concrete or reliable way to get at Melville’s affirmations of and arguments with these interlocutors than in the markings and annotations that appear in his copies of many of their works, so Yothers examines Melville’s marginalia for clues to Melville’s thinking about self, other, and difference. Sacred Uncertainty provides a much needed exploration of Melville’s encounter with and reflection upon religious difference.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 081013179X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Yothers’ Sacred Uncertainty examines Melville’s engagement with religious difference, both within American culture and around the world. It is impossible to understand Melville’s wider engagement with religious and cultural questions, however, without understanding the fundamental tension between self and society, self and others that underlies his work, and that is manifested in particular in the way in which he interacts with other writers. There is almost certainly no more concrete or reliable way to get at Melville’s affirmations of and arguments with these interlocutors than in the markings and annotations that appear in his copies of many of their works, so Yothers examines Melville’s marginalia for clues to Melville’s thinking about self, other, and difference. Sacred Uncertainty provides a much needed exploration of Melville’s encounter with and reflection upon religious difference.