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Women and missions : past and present : anthropological and historical perceptions

xx, 279 pages : 23 cm This 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 nineteenth-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 workers The fascinating debates are very relevant to the ordination of women issue of today. Although they are traditionall…