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The Dutch Reformed women's missionary movement from the Cape and the Mt. Holyoke connection / Dana L. Robert.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robert, Dana Lee, author.
- Series:
- Luviri occasional papers ; no. 1.
- Luviri occasional papers ; no. 1
- 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.
- Mount Holyoke College.
- Reformed Church--Missions.
- Women missionaries.
- Southern Africa.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- 66 pages ; 21 cm.
- Other Title:
- Dutch Reformed women's missionary movement from the Cape and the Mount Holyoke connection
- Dutch Reformed women's missionary movement from South Africa and the Mt. Holyoke connection
- Dutch Reformed women's missionary movement from South Africa and the Mount Holyoke connection
- Place of Publication:
- Mzuzu : 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:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 57-62) and index.
- "For further reading: (page 63).
- Other Format:
- Print version Dana, Robert The Dutch Reformed Women's Missionary Movement from the Cape and the Mt Holyoke Connection
- ISBN:
- 9789996080272
- 9996080277
- OCLC:
- 1400973428
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