Author: Kathleen L. Lodwick
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
ISBN: 9780934223737
Category : Exterritoriality
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
"Mrs. Clara Byers, the pregnant mother of four, was widowed in June 1924 when her husband George, a Presbyterian missionary, was murdered, in a botched kidnapping, at Kachek, in the interior of Hainan Island, off the south coast of China. The murder set off an extraterritoriality incident which quickly became a conundrum in which American, British, and Chinese officials; Mrs. Byers, her friends, and relatives; and church organizations in China and America all tried to decide how to enforce American treaty rights, protect mission interests, and provide support for the Byers family. Based on American and British consular archives and those of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and members of the Hainan mission, this is the story of how Mrs. Byers and her ally, Mrs. Mabel Roys, the sole woman on the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions (BFM), successfully got the government and their church to take action."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The Widow's Quest
Author: Kathleen L. Lodwick
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
ISBN: 9780934223737
Category : Exterritoriality
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
"Mrs. Clara Byers, the pregnant mother of four, was widowed in June 1924 when her husband George, a Presbyterian missionary, was murdered, in a botched kidnapping, at Kachek, in the interior of Hainan Island, off the south coast of China. The murder set off an extraterritoriality incident which quickly became a conundrum in which American, British, and Chinese officials; Mrs. Byers, her friends, and relatives; and church organizations in China and America all tried to decide how to enforce American treaty rights, protect mission interests, and provide support for the Byers family. Based on American and British consular archives and those of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and members of the Hainan mission, this is the story of how Mrs. Byers and her ally, Mrs. Mabel Roys, the sole woman on the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions (BFM), successfully got the government and their church to take action."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
ISBN: 9780934223737
Category : Exterritoriality
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
"Mrs. Clara Byers, the pregnant mother of four, was widowed in June 1924 when her husband George, a Presbyterian missionary, was murdered, in a botched kidnapping, at Kachek, in the interior of Hainan Island, off the south coast of China. The murder set off an extraterritoriality incident which quickly became a conundrum in which American, British, and Chinese officials; Mrs. Byers, her friends, and relatives; and church organizations in China and America all tried to decide how to enforce American treaty rights, protect mission interests, and provide support for the Byers family. Based on American and British consular archives and those of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and members of the Hainan mission, this is the story of how Mrs. Byers and her ally, Mrs. Mabel Roys, the sole woman on the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions (BFM), successfully got the government and their church to take action."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Salty Wives, Spirited Mothers, and Savvy Widows
Author: F. Scott Spencer
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802867626
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Engaging feminist hermeneutics and philosophy in addition to more traditional methods of biblical study, Salty Wives, Spirited Mothers, and Savvy Widows demonstrates and celebrates the remarkable capability and ingenuity of several women in the Gospel of Luke. While recent studies have exposed women's limited opportunities for ministry in Luke, Scott Spencer pulls the pendulum back from a negative feminist-critical pole toward a more constructive center. Granting that Luke sends somewhat "mixed messages" about women's work and status as Jesus' disciples, Spencer analyzes such women as Mary, Elizabeth, Joanna, Martha and Mary, and the infamous yet intriguing wife of Lot -- whom Jesus exhorts his followers to "remember" -- as well as the unrelentingly persistent women characters in Jesus' parables.
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802867626
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Engaging feminist hermeneutics and philosophy in addition to more traditional methods of biblical study, Salty Wives, Spirited Mothers, and Savvy Widows demonstrates and celebrates the remarkable capability and ingenuity of several women in the Gospel of Luke. While recent studies have exposed women's limited opportunities for ministry in Luke, Scott Spencer pulls the pendulum back from a negative feminist-critical pole toward a more constructive center. Granting that Luke sends somewhat "mixed messages" about women's work and status as Jesus' disciples, Spencer analyzes such women as Mary, Elizabeth, Joanna, Martha and Mary, and the infamous yet intriguing wife of Lot -- whom Jesus exhorts his followers to "remember" -- as well as the unrelentingly persistent women characters in Jesus' parables.
Wife and Widow in Medieval England
Author: Sue Sheridan Walker
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472104154
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Examines the role of women in medieval law and society
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472104154
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Examines the role of women in medieval law and society
Africa's Social and Religious Quest
Author: Randee Ijatuyi-Morphé
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 0761862684
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 647
Book Description
This well-crafted book probes the key dimensions of Africa’s existential predicament. It constitutes an intellectual response to a gnawing “African situation”—the starting point for grasping Africa’s social and religious quest. Beyond split explanations of external versus internal factors (e.g., colonization/slavery vs. leadership/cultural values), this study accounts more comprehensively for emergent issues shaping this situation. The situation reflects a gamut of problems in traditional African religion and material culture, which hitherto defines African communality, polities, and destinies vis-à-vis the cosmos and nature. Thus, African religion and communities, each with its own attendant values, do not operate by critical engagement with larger issues of society and civilization, especially those shaped by the advent of (post-) modernity. Rather, they operate via adaptation. The communal drive for natural and social harmony inevitably produces a preservationist view of culture (“leaving things as they are”). This study takes an integrative approach to religion, society, and civilization; eschews dichotomies; and broadly defines and re-signifies life and wholeness as a true end of Africans’ quest today.
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 0761862684
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 647
Book Description
This well-crafted book probes the key dimensions of Africa’s existential predicament. It constitutes an intellectual response to a gnawing “African situation”—the starting point for grasping Africa’s social and religious quest. Beyond split explanations of external versus internal factors (e.g., colonization/slavery vs. leadership/cultural values), this study accounts more comprehensively for emergent issues shaping this situation. The situation reflects a gamut of problems in traditional African religion and material culture, which hitherto defines African communality, polities, and destinies vis-à-vis the cosmos and nature. Thus, African religion and communities, each with its own attendant values, do not operate by critical engagement with larger issues of society and civilization, especially those shaped by the advent of (post-) modernity. Rather, they operate via adaptation. The communal drive for natural and social harmony inevitably produces a preservationist view of culture (“leaving things as they are”). This study takes an integrative approach to religion, society, and civilization; eschews dichotomies; and broadly defines and re-signifies life and wholeness as a true end of Africans’ quest today.
Widow Wakefull's mission; or Gleanings in mildewed and blighted fields [by C. Grant].
Author: Catherine Grant
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Author: Methodist Episcopal Church
Publisher:
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Category : Methodist conferences
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Methodist conferences
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Minutes of the Annual Conferences ...
Author: Methodist Episcopal Church
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 690
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Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Decennial Edition of the American Digest
Author:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 2354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 2354
Book Description
Between Poverty and the Pyre
Author: Jan Bremmer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113488883X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Use on Women's History courses Good list of contributors
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113488883X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Use on Women's History courses Good list of contributors
Representative English Comedies
Author: Charles Mills Gayley
Publisher:
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Category : English drama (Comedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama (Comedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description