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Miss 25 (d): Women Issues

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Women Issues

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A study of the issues women face in fulfilling her role in her mission in the kingdom of God. These will be studied from a theological, social, feminist and historical perspective.

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The purpose of this course is to help the students to understand different issues women face theologically, socially and historically and in the modem era in relation to her mission in the kingdom of God. The course aims at introducing the students to different writings of different views and approaches in relation to women's issues including feminist approaches and to help them to arrive at their own reasonable approach. The course also wants to bring out the long neglected contribution of women in the mission fields from western and native origin.

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How do theological, social and historical lenses reveal different aspects of women's experiences in mission? Identify whose agency or voice could be obscured by a general account.

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Miss 25 (d) Women Issues

Amazing Grace Biblical Seminary — M.Th. Missiology

Area F: Contextual Missiological Issues Miss. 25 - An in-depth study of any two of the contemporary issues from Missiological Perspectives (d) Women Issues College Examined 2 Credits Course Content: A study of the issues women face in fulfilling her role in her mission in the kingdom of God. These will be studied from a theological, social, feminist and historical perspective. Purpose and Goals: The purpose of this course is to help the students to understand different issues women face theologically, socially and historically and in the modem era in relation to her mission in the kingdom of God. The course aims at introducing the students to different writings of different views and approaches in relation to women's issues including feminist approaches and to help them to arrive at their own reasonable approach. The course also wants to bring out the long neglected contribution of women in the mission fields from western and native origin. Course Outline: Social Issues: Different images of women, social expectations and social situations. Religious images of women in India. Globalization and women. Female infanticide, child marriage, dowry, marriage trade, rape, sexual harassment of women, widowhood. Concept of partnership of men and women and related social issues at home, work and society. Theological Issues: Biblical and theological understanding of women in Mission: Men - Women partnership in the purpose of God. Faith, Experience, Tradition and Biblical Culture and its role. Purity and women. Feminist approaches. Leadership, women ordination, women in ministry and mission. Sexuality in Partnership. Historical Issues: Sati abolishment, Zenana Mission in India, the Upper Breast Cloth Controversy in Kerala Female missionaries (including wives of missionaries) to India, study three e.g. Hannah Marshman, Augusta Mary Blandford, Ida S. Scudder, Amy Carmichel, Sarah Grant etc. choose from your context. Indigenious Indian female leadership: Royal Clarinda, Begum Sumru, Pandita Ramabai, etc. find out others from your context. Selected Bibliography: Amirtham, Metti, SCC. Women in India. Negotiating Body, Reclaiming Agency. Delhi: ISPCK 2011. 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. Baptist, Antony John. Unsung Melodies from Margins. Delhi: ISPCK, 2014. Burton, Antoinette, Contesting the Zenana: The Mission to make "Lady Doctors for India" 1874-1885. Journal of British Studies 35 (July 1996): 368-397. 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. 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. Gnanadason, Aruna. Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology. Listen to the women! Listen to the Earth. Geneva: WCC Publication 2005. 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. Hedlund, Roger E. & Sebastian Kim (ed.). Indian & Christian: The Life and Legacy of Pandita Ramabai. IA Book 2011, Chennai: MIIS/CMS/ISPCK 2011. Heideman, Eugene. "Women Missionaries in India: Opening Up the Restrictive Policies of Rufus Anderson" International Bulletin of Missionary Research (Oct. 2001) 157-164. Honig, A.G. "Asian Women Theology" Exchange No. 37, September 1987. 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. 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. Monteiro, Evelyn and Antoinette Gutzler, (ed.) Ecclecia of Women in Asia: Gathering the Voices of the Silenced. Delhi: ISPCK 2005. 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. Rosi, et. al. A Women, Environment and Sustainable Development towards a Theoretical Synthesis. London: Zed Books, 1997. Saldanha, Virginia, ed. Discipleship of Asian Women at the Service of Life, Vol I & II. Bangalore: Claretion Publication, 2011. 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. Special Books and articles Amer, Moamenla. Women's Political Status and Engagement: A Study of Nagaland. New Delhi: Akansha Publishing House, 2012. 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. 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) 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, Antoney George Pattaparambil, Bangalore: Asian Trading Corporation, 2012, pp. 327-354. 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. 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. 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 Hardgrave. The Nadars of Tamilnad: The Political Culture of a Community in Change (Brust Cloth Controversy, Kerala). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969. Sebastian, Mrinalini. "Reading archives from a postcolonial perspective: "Native" bible women and missionary ideal." Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 19 (2003): 5-25. Shruti Rani Joseph, Mary. The Role of Consecrated Women in the Missionary Activity of the Church: A Missiological study. Delhi. ISPCK 2014. 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. Varghese, Thomas. Abuse of Women in Indian Christian Families: Roles of Clergymen, Church and Theological Institutions. Delhi: ISPCK, 2013.

Faculty review notes: The detailed file says Miss 25(d) and any two contemporary issues. The curriculum groups contemporary issues under Miss 24. The differing number and selection wording are preserved for faculty confirmation. No percentage evaluation scheme is supplied here. AGBS must confirm it; no scheme is copied from another entry.

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