The Dutch Reformed Women's Missionary Movement from the Cape and the Mt Holyoke Connection : Holyoke Connection / Robert Dana.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dana, Robert, 1929-2010, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reformed Church in America--Missions.

Reformed Church in America.

Missions--South Africa.

Missions.

Women in missionary work--South Africa.

Women in missionary work.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (68 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Mzuzu, Malawi : Luviri Press, [2023]

Summary:

This book reinterprets the history of South African Dutch Reformed missions as a women's movement. It traces American women missionaries from Mt. Holyoke College who went to southern Africa in the late 1800s to teach Dutch Reformed girls. Dutch Reformed women then formed a missionary network to send the educated women throughout southern Africa, and into Malawi and Zimbabwe. Missionary women modeled a combination of education and piety that inspired African church women's leadership and enabled Reformed churches to spread throughout the region. Not only does the book show how American women introduced a distinctive missionary piety into Reformed missions, but it also places women at the center of southern African mission history.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright page

Title page

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

American Teachers and the Rise of Missionary Consciousness among South African Women

Andrew Murray, Jr., American Missionaries, and the Mount Holyoke System

The Teachers from Mount Holyoke

The Missionary Movement from Huguenot Seminary

Women's Leadership in Shaping African Missions

Bibliography

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

99960-66-88-6

OCLC:

1412008629