Women and Missions: Past and Present: Anthropological and Historical Perceptions (Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women) Ancient & Medieval Literature With more than 19 million

With more than 19 million copies sold to date and more than 105 titles now in print

ISBN13: 9780130736857 ISBN10: 0130736856 Material Type: hardcover

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Women and Missions: Past and Present: Anthropological and Historical Perceptions (Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women) Ancient & Medieval Literature With more than 19 millionThis collection of essays by eminent anthropologists, missiologists and historians explores the hitherto neglected topic of women missionaries and the effect of Christian missionary activity upon women. The book consists of two parts. The first part looks at 19th century women missionaries as presented in literature, at the backgrounds and experience of women in the mission field and at the attitudes of missionary societies towards their female