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Gender, Religion, and the Heathen Lands: American Missionary Women in South Asia, 1860s-1940s

Gender, Religion, and the Heathen Lands: American Missionary Women in South Asia, 1860s-1940s

Singh, Maina Chawla
Singh, Maina Chawla

Hardcover

Series: Gender, Culture and Global Politics

General Christianity

ISBN10: 0815328249
ISBN13: 9780815328247
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 1 1999
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.42
Height: 1.21 Width: 5.82 Depth: 8.82
Language: English
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.

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