Putting Names with Faces

Name: Putting Names with Faces
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ISBN: 9781426758393

ISBN-10: 1426758391

ISBN-13: 9781426758393

Edition: 2012

Authors: Afrie Songco Joye, Atola Longkumer, Afrie S. Joye

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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…

Book details

List price: $23.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Publication date: 9/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 390
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Foreword



Introduction




Foundational Perspectives



Biblical Perspectives on Women's Impact in Mission




Women's Absence and Presence in the History and Records of Christian Mission: Historical Survey of Women in Mission




Case Studies



Mothers for All: The Missionary Impact on Models of Femininity and Maternity in West Africa




Gendered Charisma: Women in Mission in the Neo-Pentecostal Churches and Charismatic Movements in Kenya




Women in Ethiopian Christianity: An Appraisal of Their Impacts Past and Present




A Passion for Evangelism and a Heart for the Women of Iran




Tetsur Tesayula: Christian Mission and Gender among the Ao Naga of Northeast India




Christianity and Women in Contemporary China




Mission and Gender Justice from a Korean Protestant Perspective




Naito Julia and Women Catechists in the Jesuit Mission in Japan and the Philippines




Women's Society and Deaconesses' Mission in the Philippines




More than Wives: Rediscovering the little "m" in Our Mission History: A Case Study of Four Missionary Wives in Early Aotearoa/New Zealand




Missionaries' Commitment in Mexico: Women's Education and Resistance to Violence




Churches and Social Service: Presbyterian Women in Mission in Guatemala




Swiss-German Protestant Women in Mission: The Basel Mission (Nineteenth to Twenty-first Century)




Consequences for Theological Reflection on Mission



"Without Faces": Women's Perspectives on Contextual Missiology



Afterword



Contributors