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Miss 5: Women in Mission: Historical Perspective

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Women in Mission: Historical Perspective

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Course description

A study of the long neglected role of women in the history of mission including the female supporters of mission, the wives of missionaries and the female missionaries (Bible women, teachers) and particularly the wives of local evangelists, pastors, the native female missionaries (Bible women, teachers) etc.

Course objectives

The purpose of this course is to help the students to understand, study, research and remember the long neglected contribution of women in the mission fields from western and particularly from native origin. As the research is only emerging in this field, the students can be engaged themselves in filling the many blanks in their local mission history from female perspective.

Source methods and requirements

Reproduced source instructions, not newly scheduled LMS deadlines or extra formative assessments.

Method of Teaching

Combination of lectures and seminars which consists of paper presentations, critical responses and group discussions.

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Method of Evaluation

1) Written examination - 60% 2) Seminar and paper presentation and class participation - 40%

Course arrangements

Source credit value: 2 credits. Semester, faculty, dates, deadlines and individual registrations require AGBS confirmation. Source unit numbers are retained even where repeated; they are not a weekly timetable.

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Course topics

Reflect

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How can a mission history recover women's agency without treating all women as sharing one experience? Compare what institutional records and authorised local histories make visible or leave silent.

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Create a women-in-mission evidence gallery

Compare two source-listed women or groups using approved published sources. Examine authorship, work and context, distinguish biographical evidence from later memory and prepare a respectful exhibit. Ask a peer to identify a missing perspective before revising your account.

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3. Revisit
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Which emphasis is central to this source?

Women's contributions of both overseas and local originOnly biographies of male institutional leadersA requirement to collect private testimony without consent

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Miss 5 Women in Mission: Historical Perspective

Amazing Grace Biblical Seminary — M.Th. Missiology

AREA B: History of Missions Miss-5: Women in Mission: Historical Perspective 2 Credits Course Content: A study of the long neglected role of women in the history of mission including the female supporters of mission, the wives of missionaries and the female missionaries (Bible women, teachers) and particularly the wives of local evangelists, pastors, the native female missionaries (Bible women, teachers) etc. Purpose and Goals: The purpose of this course is to help the students to understand, study, research and remember the long neglected contribution of women in the mission fields from western and particularly from native origin. As the research is only emerging in this field, the students can be engaged themselves in filling the many blanks in their local mission history from female perspective. Method of Teaching: Combination of lectures and seminars which consists of paper presentations, critical responses and group discussions. Method of Evaluation: 1) Written examination - 60% 2) Seminar and paper presentation and class participation - 40% Course Outline: The role of women in the mission in the early church and their martyrdom Woman and Monasticism The role of women in pietism and later in the mission circles for the support of the mission overseas Women as wives of missionaries, their challenges as life companions, childbearers, managers of schools, ghostwriters of reports etc (Maria Dorothea Ziegenbalg, Hannah Marshman, Mrs. Gundert etc. (choose a minimum of 2 also from your context). Female education, Zenana Mission and zenana life style Contribution of white single female missionaries like Augusta Mary Blandford (educational mission), Ms. Baker of Kottayam. Ida S. Scudder (medical mission) Amy Carmichel (social mission, against devadasi system) Sister Sarah Grant (spiritual mission) choose from your context any other The Bible Women in Mission Contribution of indigenous female leadership in Mission (choose any 2-3 for intensive study) Pandita Ramabai Mother Theresa Royal Clarinda Begum Sumru Sister Rani Maria and Sister Valsa (martyrs) and other catholic nuns Or any other from your region Globalisation, migration, atrocitites against women, LGBT and the role of female missionaries in the changing context. Selected Books: Amirtham, Metti, SCC. Women in India. Negotiating Body, Reclaiming Agency. Delhi: ISPCK 2011. Baptist, Antony John. Unsung Melodies from Margins. Delhi: ISPCK, 2014. Chakravarti, Uma. Revisiting History: The Life and Times of Pandita Ramabai. Zubaan, reprint 2015. Chatterjee, Sunil Kumar. Hannah Marshmann. The first woman missionary in India. Calcutta: People's Little Press, 1987. Chaudhuri, Maitreya ed. Feminism in India. Chicago: Zed Books 2005. Gnanadason, Aruna. Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology. Listen to the women! Listen to the Earth. Geneva: WCC Publication 2005. Hedlund, Roger E. & Sebastian Kim (ed.). Indian & Christian: The Life and Legacy of Pandita Ramabai. IA Book 2011, Chennai: MIIS/CMS/ISPCK 2011. Jathanna, Gladson. Mode of Maturity in the Margins of Mission: Hermannsburg Women's Mission in India. Bangalore: Dharmaram Publications, 2015. Jayaraj, Nirmala, ed. Women and Society Madurai: Vanguard Press, 2001. Kent, Eliza F. "Raja Clarinda - Widow, Concubine, Patroness: Women's Leadership in the Indian Church." Halle and the Beginning of Protestant Christianity in India, Vol. II Andreas Gross, Y. Vincent Kumaradoss, Heike Liebau ed. Halle: Verlag der Franckeschen Stiftungen 2006. Kent, Eliza F. Converting women: gender and protestant Christianity in colonial South India. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pabst, Erika. "The Wives of Missionaries: Their Experiences in India." Halle and the beginning of Protestant Christianity in India, Vol. II Andreas Gross, Y. Vincent Kumaradoss, Heike Liebau ed. Halle: Verlag der Franckeschen Stiftungen 2006. Saldanha, Virginia, ed. Discipleship of Asian Women at the Service of Life, Vol I & II. Bangalore: Claretion Publication, 2011. Shruti Rani Joseph, Mary. The Role of Consecrated Women in the Missionary Activity of the Church: A Missiological study. Delhi. ISPCK 2014. Additional Bibliography Amer, Moamenla. Women's Political Status and Engagement: A Study of Nagaland. New Delhi: Akansha Publishing House, 2012. Athyal, Leelamma. "Feminist Theology - An Analysis". NCC1 Review Vol. 3 pp. 12-140, 1985. Athyal, Sakhi, Braidotti. Indian Women in Mission. Bihar: Mission Educational Books, 1995. Burton, Antoinette, Contesting the Zenana: The Mission to make "Lady Doctors for India" 1874-1885. Journal of British Studies 35 (July 1996): 368-397. Cruz, Gemma. "The Power of Resistance: Look at the Power of the Power-less." CTC Bulletin, 20/3 (December: 2004). Available at http://cca.org.hk/home/ctc/ctc04-12/ctc04-12w.htm. Fabella, Virginia and Mercy Amba Oduyoye. With Passion and Compassion: Third World Women Doing Theology. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1994. Grenz, Stantlely J. and Denise Muir Kjesbo, eds. Women in the Church: A Biblical Theology' of Women in Ministry. Downers Grove, Illinois: Intervarsity Press, 1995. Gross, Andreas. "Maria Dorothea Ziegenbalg and Utilia Elisabeth Gründler: The First two Wives of Missionaries in Tranquebar." Halle and the beginning of Protestant Christianity in India, Vol. II Andreas Gross, Y. Vincent Kumaradoss, Heike Liebau ed. Halle: Verlag der Franckeschen Stiftungen, 2006. Hardgrave, Robert. The Nadars of Tamilnad: The Political Culture of a Community in Change (Brest Cloth Controversy, Kerala). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969. Heideman, Eugene. "Women Missionaries in India: Opening Up the Restrictive Policies of Rufus Anderson" International Bulletin of Missionary Research (Oct. 2001) 157-164. Hnuni, R.L. "Interfaith relation in the context of primal women in North east India with emphasis on Christian." Interfaith relations after one hundred years: Christian mission among other faiths, ed. By Ngursangzeli Beherea. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock, 2011 (Regnum Edinburgh 2010 series) Honig, A.G. "Asian Women Theology" Exchange No. 37, September 1987. Joy, Hepzi R.J. History and Development of Education of Women in Kerala (1819-1947). Kannammoola, Thiruvananthapuram: Seminary Publications 1995. Kinattingal, Sucy. "The First Indigenous Carmelite Third Order Congregation for Women in India and its Contribution in Evangelization." New Evangelization and Migration: Transforming Perspectives, edited by, Antony George Pattaparambil, Bangalore: Asian Trading Corporation, 2012, pp. 327-354. King, Ursula, ed. Feminist Theology from the Third World: A Reader. London: SPCK, 1994. Kwok, Pui-Lan, ed. Hope Abundant: Third World and Indigenous Women's Theology. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2010. Lall, John. Fading Portrait in a Gilded Frame. New Delhi: Roli Books 1997. (About Begum Sumru) Mangubhai, Jayshree P., Aloysius Irudayam and Joel G. Lee ed. Dalit women speak out: Caste, class and gender Violence in India. New Delhi: Zubaan, 2011. Mathew, Mercy, Annie Dresey. Dayabai. The Lady with Fire. Franciscan Publication: Bangalore no year, there also CD. Margarer, D. J. "An inquiry into the role of spiritual beliefs and practices and post-diagnosis care of women living with HIV/AIDS." Indian Journal of Christian Studies 4 (2014): 93-129. Mulackal, Shalini. "Women: Theology and feminist movements in India." Rethinking theology in India: Christianity in the twenty-first century, edited by James Massey and T. K. John, New Delhi: Manohar & New Delhi: Centre for Dalit/Subaltern Studies, 2013, pp. 151-177. Monteiro, Evelyn and Antoinette Gutzler, (ed.) Ecclesia of Women in Asia: Gathering the Voices of the Silenced. Delhi: ISPCK 2005. Nilayamgode, Devaki. Antharjanam: Memoirs of a Namboodiri Woman. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011. Rawade, Priscilla. "The mission of church in liberating Dalit Women." National Council of Churches Review 134 (2014): 359-373. Robert, Dana. American Women in Mission. A Social History of Their Thought and Practice. Macon, Georgia Mercer 1992. Rosi, et. al. A Women, Environment and Sustainable Development towards a Theoretical Synthesis. London: Zed Books, 1997. Schaller Blaufuss, Mary. "Healing Mission: Indian women shape mission emphases of the Christian Medical College in Vellore." Missiology 33 (2005): 397-414. Sebastian, Mrinalini. "Reading archives from a postcolonial feminist perspective: "Native" Bible women and missionaries." Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 19 (2003): 5-25. Singh, Maina Chawla. "Women, Mission and Medicine: Clara Swain, Anna Kugler, and Early medical Endeavours in Colonial India." International Bulletin of Missionary Research, 29/3, 128-133. Taneti, James Elisha. Caste, Gender and Christianity in Colonial India. Telugu Women in Mission. New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2013. Turpin, Joanne. Women in Church History: 21 Stories for 21 Centuries. Ohio: St. Antony Messenger Press, 1989 & 2007, reprint

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