Title American women in mission : a social history of their thought and practice / Dana L. Robert

Published Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, [1996] ©1996

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Description xxii, 444 pages ; 23 cm Series The Modern mission era, 1792-1992 Modern mission era, 1792-1992. Contents General Introduction / Wilbert R. Shenk -- Pt. I. The Foundational Decades: Protestant Women from 1812 to 1860. Ch. 1. The Missionary Wife. Ch. 2. The Missionary Wife: Models and Practice of Mission. Ch. 3. The Missionary Teacher -- Pt. II. The Protestant Woman's Missionary Movement: 1860 to the Second World War. Ch. 4. "Woman's Work for Woman" and the Methodist Episcopal Church. Ch. 5. Women and Independent Evangelical Missions. Ch. 6. The Ecumenical Woman's Missionary Movement -- Pt. III. Roman Catholic Women in Mission. Ch. 7. The Emergence of Missionary Sisters. Ch. 8. From Auxiliary to Missioner -- The Shape of American Women's Mission Thought: A Concluding Note Notes Includes a bibliography Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [419]-444) Subject Missionaries' spouses -- United States -- History. Missions -- Theory -- History of doctrines. Women in missionary work -- United States -- History. Missions, American. Women in missionary work. Women missionaries -- United States -- History. Women missionaries. LC no. 97006439 ISBN 0865545499

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