An Historiography of Twentieth-Century Women's Missionary Nursing Through the Lives of Two Sisters

ISBN-13: 9781032417967 / Twarda / 2023 / 272 str.

UK) Ashencaen Crabtree Sara (Bournemouth University

Opis

This volume draws on a trove of unpublished original material from the pre-1940s to the present to offer a unique historiographic study of twentieth-century Methodist missionary work and women’s active expression of faith, practised at the critical confluence of historical and global changes.

Spis treści

1. Sketching the Sacred: An Introduction to a Contemporary Hagiography  2. Methodism: People, Passion and Piety  3. The Foundations of Faith: A Methodist Girlhood  4. War, Mercy, Hope and Charity  5. The ‘Call’ to India  6. Medical Mission in India and the Confluence of Worlds  7. The Road to Maua.  8. The Mutani and the Mau Mau.  9. New Jerusalems.  10. Conclusions: An Unfolding Legacy

O autorze

Sara Ashencaen Crabtree is Professor of Social and Cultural Diversity, Bournemouth University, UK and Professor Emeritus, University of Stavanger, Norway. An internationally renowned social scientist, she publishes prolifically, on faith, gender, diversity, welfare and vulnerability.