Putting Names With Faces

by Lienemann-Perrin, Christine; Longkumer, Atola; Joye, Afrie Songco

• ISBN13: 9781426758393
• ISBN10: 1426758391
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-09-30
• Publisher: Abingdon Pr

Summary

Women have participated in Christian mission work since the beginning of Christianity. Few of their names are known to us; others are identified as spouses or coworkers of men in mission; and many remain completely anonymous. Putting Names with Faces addresses this disparity and attempts to do justice to at least some of the women who have contributed tremendously to the missionary endeavor in past and present times on all continents. It is an attempt to put names to these otherwise unknown faces and to honor their significant, but untold, contributions throughout the history of mission. Thoughtful, eye-opening, expansive, and humbling, Putting Names with Faces is a book you will not be able to forget.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 9
Introduction	p. 15
Foundational Perspectives
Biblical Perspectives on Women's Impact in Mission	p. 23
Women's Absence and Presence in the History and Records of Christian Mission: Historical Survey of Women in Mission	p. 45
Case Studies
Mothers for All: The Missionary Impact on Models of Femininity and Maternity in West Africa	p. 99
Gendered Charisma: Women in Mission in the Neo-Pentecostal Churches and Charismatic Movements in Kenya	p. 123
Women in Ethiopian Christianity: An Appraisal of Their Impacts Past and Present	p. 147
A Passion for Evangelism and a Heart for the Women of Iran	p. 169
Tetsur Tesayula: Christian Mission and Gender among the Ao Naga of Northeast India	p. 187
Christianity and Women in Contemporary China	p. 207
Mission and Gender Justice from a Korean Protestant Perspective	p. 223
Naito Julia and Women Catechists in the Jesuit Mission in Japan and the Philippines	p. 247
Women's Society and Deaconesses' Mission in the Philippines	p. 259
More than Wives: Rediscovering the little "m" in Our Mission History: A Case Study of Four Missionary Wives in Early Aotearoa/New Zealand	p. 277
Missionaries' Commitment in Mexico: Women's Education and Resistance to Violence	p. 297
Churches and Social Service: Presbyterian Women in Mission in Guatemala	p. 317
Swiss-German Protestant Women in Mission: The Basel Mission (Nineteenth to Twenty-first Century)	p. 335
Consequences for Theological Reflection on Mission
"Without Faces": Women's Perspectives on Contextual Missiology	p. 361
Afterword	p. 383
Contributors	p. 385
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