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Birthing Revival - Women and Mission in Nineteenth-Century France (Hardcover)
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Birthing Revival - Women and Mission in Nineteenth-Century France (Hardcover)
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The nineteenth century witnessed a flurry of evangelical and
missionary activity in Europe and North America. This was an era of
renewed piety and intense zeal spanning denominations and
countries. One area of Protestant flourishing in this period has
received scant attention in Anglophone sources, however: the French
Reveil. Born of a rich Huguenot heritage but aimed at recovering
the religion of the heart, this awakening gave birth to a dynamic
missionary movement-and some of its chief agents were women. In
Birthing Revival, Michele Sigg sheds light on the seminal role
French Protestant women played in launching and sustaining this
movement of revival and mission. Out of the concerted efforts of
these women arose a holistic mission strategy encompassing the home
front and the foreign field. Parisian women, led by Emilie Mallet,
established schools to provide infants with food, safety, and
religious education. Mallet and her friend Albertine de Broglie led
the women's auxiliary of the Paris Bible Society to design and
carry out a strategy for large-scale Bible distribution and
fundraising. In 1825 de Broglie pioneered the women's committee of
the Paris Evangelical Mission Society, which used the Bible Society
model to promote international missions across their many networks.
In meetings, publications, and reports to the annual General
Assembly, the women reflected on their calling in the work of
mission and fully embraced their identity as "true missionaries."
The success of women teachers and their presence as wives and
mothers in the Lesotho Mission-exemplified by pioneering missionary
wife Elizabeth Lyndall Rolland-proved that married couples serving
together as models of Christian living were essential in opening
the doors to missionary work in Africa. The story, and these
women's legacies, does not end in the field, however. Sigg
demonstrates how the educational work of the missionary wives and
their publications that shared good news of growing faith in
Lesotho sparked local revivals in France. When the enthusiasm of
the Reveil waned in the metropole and divisions mounted among
Protestants, a movement of deaconesses emerged to renew the faith
of French Protestants.
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