Eliza F. Kent
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780195165074
- eISBN:
- 9780199835171
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195165071.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
This chapter examines the extent to which evangelical Christianity empowered women missionaries and enabled them to challenge the patriarchal norms of missionary culture in India. It analyzes the ...
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This chapter examines the extent to which evangelical Christianity empowered women missionaries and enabled them to challenge the patriarchal norms of missionary culture in India. It analyzes the conditions in the United States and Britain that gave rise to the women’s missionary project, and the theological dispositions shared by male and female missionaries of the time. It then compares the styles of two women missionaries who were motivated by two varieties of Protestant Christianity: Amy Carmichael, the Keswick missionary initially attached to the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society in Tirunelveli; and Eva Swift, a missionary sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to the American Madurai Mission.Less
This chapter examines the extent to which evangelical Christianity empowered women missionaries and enabled them to challenge the patriarchal norms of missionary culture in India. It analyzes the conditions in the United States and Britain that gave rise to the women’s missionary project, and the theological dispositions shared by male and female missionaries of the time. It then compares the styles of two women missionaries who were motivated by two varieties of Protestant Christianity: Amy Carmichael, the Keswick missionary initially attached to the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society in Tirunelveli; and Eva Swift, a missionary sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to the American Madurai Mission.
Eric Reinders
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520241718
- eISBN:
- 9780520931084
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520241718.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
This chapter discusses John MacGowan's story of a Chinese Christian called Goon to show how missionaries imagined the possible redemption of the damned in China. It describes the inner workings of ...
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This chapter discusses John MacGowan's story of a Chinese Christian called Goon to show how missionaries imagined the possible redemption of the damned in China. It describes the inner workings of Goon's theology and his personal transformation. It suggests that MacGowan's story of Goon alluded to many of the active concerns and problems of missionary culture, which included doubts about the sincerity of converts and doubts about the spiritual and cultural depth of native Christianity.Less
This chapter discusses John MacGowan's story of a Chinese Christian called Goon to show how missionaries imagined the possible redemption of the damned in China. It describes the inner workings of Goon's theology and his personal transformation. It suggests that MacGowan's story of Goon alluded to many of the active concerns and problems of missionary culture, which included doubts about the sincerity of converts and doubts about the spiritual and cultural depth of native Christianity.
