Gender, Religion, and the Heathen Lands

American Missionary Women in South Asia, 1860s-1940s

Maina Chawla Singh (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

393 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-97501-9 (ISBN)

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Seeking to extend existing scholarship on gender and colonialism and on women and American religion, this cross-cultural study examines the work of American missionary women in South Asia at several levels. A primary concern of the study is to historicize the interventions of these women and situate them within the dual contexts of the sending society and the receiving culture. It focuses on missionaries Isabella Thoburn and Ida Scudder, who founded some of the premier women's colleges and hospitals in British colonial India. The book also draws upon the narratives and reminiscences of South Asian women, now in their seventies, who attended such institutions in the 1940s, and whose voices texture our understanding of American women's missionary work in "Other" cultures.

Maina Chawla Singh

Part I Chapter 1 The Missionary Scenario Chapter 2 Biblical Helpmeet and Evangelical Worker: The Missionary Wife Chapter 3 Darkness, Disease, The Zenana, and the Heathen Woman: Constructing Discourses and Saving Souls Chapter 4 Documenting Knowledge and Producing Texts: An Analysis of Missionary Literature Part II Chapter 5 Shifting Paradigms: Facing the Twentieth Century Chapter 6 Feminists, Philanthropists, Matriarchs, and Managers: The Single-Women Missionaries Chapter 7 Isabella Thoburn (1840-1901): The Lal Bagh School and the Isabella Thoburn College Chapter 8 Making Women Physicians and Christ-Filled Doctors: Ida Scudder (1870-1960) and the Christian Medical College, Vellore Chapter 9 Living Voices: Missionary Legacies and Indian Daughters

Erscheinungsdatum	19.07.2016
Reihe/Serie	Gender, Culture and Global Politics
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-138-97501-X / 113897501X
ISBN-13	978-1-138-97501-9 / 9781138975019
Zustand	Neuware