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Engeland, wonderland
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ISBN: 9058263460 Year: 2005 Publisher: Leuven Davidsfonds


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The Oxford movement : Europe and the wider world 1830-1930
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ISBN: 9781107016446 9781139516815 1139516817 9781139518673 1139518674 1139515160 9781139515160 9781139061087 1139061089 1107016444 9781107680272 1107230446 1139508121 1280774045 9786613684813 1139517740 1139514245 1107680271 9781107230446 9781139508124 9781280774041 6613684813 9781139517744 9781139514248 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The Oxford Movement transformed the nineteenth-century Church of England with a renewed conception of itself as a spiritual body. Initiated in the early 1830s by members of the University of Oxford, it was a response to threats to the established Church posed by British Dissenters, Irish Catholics, Whig and Radical politicians, and the predominant evangelical ethos - what Newman called 'the religion of the day'. The Tractarians believed they were not simply addressing difficulties within their national Church, but recovering universal principles of the Christian faith. To what extent were their beliefs and ideals communicated globally? Was missionary activity the product of the movement's distinctive principles? Did their understanding of the Church promote, or inhibit, closer relations among the churches of the global Anglican Communion? This volume addresses these questions and more with a series of case studies involving Europe and the English-speaking world during the first century of the Movement.


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Vrienden van God
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ISBN: 9020947656 Year: 2002 Volume: *1 Publisher: Tielt Lannoo

Missionary women: gender, professionalism and the Victorian idea of Christian mission
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ISBN: 1843830132 9786610545759 1280545755 1846151244 9781846151248 Year: 2003 Publisher: Woodbridge The Boydell Press

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This is the first comprehensive study of the role of gender in British Protestant missionary expansion into China and India during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on the experiences of wives and daughters, female missionaries, educators and medical staff associated with the London Missionary Society, the China Inland Mission and the various Scottish Presbyterian Mission Societies, it compares and contrasts gender relations within different British Protestant missions in cross-cultural settings. Drawing on extensive published and archival materials, this study examines how gender, race, class, nationality and theology shaped the polity of Protestant missions and Christian interaction with native peoples. Rather than providing a romantic portrayal of fulfilled professional freedom, this work argues that women's labor in Christian missions, as in the secular British Empire and domestic society, remained under-valued both in terms of remuneration and administrative advancement, until well into the twentieth century. Rich in details and full of insights, this work not only presents the first comparative treatment of gender relations in British Christian missionary movements, but also contributes to an understanding of the importance of gender more broadly in the high imperial age.

RHONDA A. SEMPLE is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada.

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