Life in Language : Mission Feminists and the Emergence of a New Protestant Subject.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hovland, Ingie.

Series:

Class 200: New Studies in Religion Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dons, Henny, 1874-1966.

Dons, Henny.

Dons, Henny, 1874-1966--Language.

Norske misjonsselskap.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2025.

Summary:

A new anthropology of Protestant feminism, anchored by the language experiments of one Lutheran community. The language of the Bible is a powerful lens through which many Protestants understand themselves and their world, and its prohibitions on women’s speech pose complicated challenges to women. Nevertheless, women frequently serve as vocal leaders in Protestant organizations, including the early twentieth-century Norwegian Mission Society. In Life in Language, Ingie Hovland offers a unique biography of Henny Dons, a leader of the society’s so-called mission feminists, that grapples with ways Protestant women crafted innovative, expansive self-understandings through Christian language. More than their male peers, the mission feminists turned to religious speech to express material, as well as heavenly, desires for paid work, voting rights, and more, and Hovland argues that these experiments in women speaking, reading, writing, and listening paved the way for a new way of being in the world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION Unlearning Protestant Dematerialization

1 LISTENING

2 SPEAKING

3 WRITING

4 READING

CONCLUSION A Material- Discursive, Multiple Protestantism

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTES

REFERENCES

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780226838304

0226838307

OCLC:

1499927866