Published 1997
Table of Contents:
“…The Place of Antebellum Missionary Women in American Religious History -- The Puritan Roots of Republican Motherhood -- The Role of New Divinity Thought in Motivating Enthusiasm for Foreign Missions -- Distinctions between Religious and Political Imperialism -- The Importance and Distinctiveness of Antebellum Missionary Women -- The Myth of Puritanism's Morbidity -- The Feminist Distaste for Self-Denial -- Religious Community at Mount Holyoke -- Education and Teaching as Means of Negotiating Social Stress and Change -- Mount Holyoke as an Instance of Antebellum Communitarianism -- Mount Holyoke Compared to the Oneida Community -- The Role of Community in Shaping Modern
Society in the United States -- The Mechanics of Communal Life at Mount Holyoke -- Anti-Catholic Sentiment at Mount Holyoke -- Investment in the Scientific Validity of Protestant Orthodoxy -- Building God's Work of Redemption at Mount Holyoke -- The Conversion Process and the Self-Referential Character of Missionary Zeal -- Missionaries as Exemplars of an Advanced Stage of the Conversion Process -- Mary Lyon's Conversion -- Precedents for Conversion at Mount Holyoke -- Lyon's Strategies for Nurturing Conversion and Missionary Zeal -- The Centrality of Women in the Revitalization of Nestorian Christianity and Its Conflict with ... -- Fiske Seminary as an Outpost of Mount Holyoke -- The New Culture Created at Fiske Seminary -- The Place of American Intervention in the History of Nestorian Culture -- American Contributions to Changing Expectations of Gender Differentiation -- The Exclusivism of American Missionary Idealism -- The Presence and Impact of Mary Lyon's Students in Maharashtra -- Christianity in India -- Abby Fairbank as a Cross-Cultural Exemplar of Female Piety -- Mary Lyon's Students as Religious Teachers and Pioneers in Female Education -- Conflict in the Maratha Mission and Its Implications for Missionary Women…”
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