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Mary Lyon and the Mount Holyoke Missionaries (Hardcover)
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Mary Lyon and the Mount Holyoke Missionaries (Hardcover)
Series: Religion in America
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American women played in important part in Protestant foreign
missionary work from its early days at the beginning of the
nineteenth century. This work allowed them to disseminate the
Prostestant religious principles in which they believed, and by
enabling them to acquire professional competence as teachers, to
break into public life and create new opportunities for themselves
and other women. No institution was more closely associated with
women missionaries than Mount Holyoke College. In this book, Amanda
Porterfield examines Mount Holyoke founder Mary Lyon and the
missionary women she trained. Her students assembled in a number of
particular mission fields, most importantly Persia, India, Ceylon,
Hawaii, and Africa. Porterfield focuses on three sites where
documentation about their activities is especially rich-- northwest
Persia, Maharashtra in western India, and Natal in southeast
Africa. All three of these sites figured importantly in antebellum
missionary strategy; missionaries envisioned their converts
launching the conquest of Islam from Persia, overturning "Satan's
seat" in India, and drawing the African descendants of Ham into the
fold of Christendom. Porterfield shows that although their primary
goal of converting large numbers of women to Protestant
Christianity remained elusive, antebellum missionary women promoted
female literacy everywhere they went, along with belief in the
superiority and scientific validity of Protestant orthodoxy, the
necessity of monogamy and the importance of marital affection, and
concern for the well-being of children and women. In this way, the
missionary women contributed to cultural change in many parts of
the world, and to the development ofnew cultures that combined
missionary concepts with traditional ideals.
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