Women and Christian Mission

What are Christian women thinking about mission? How do they do mission? What informs their knowledge and action as they address issues in a complex world where religious proselytizing has become suspect?

This empirical study explores those questions, finding congruence among women from diverse backgrounds and cultural contexts. Women in mission face common identity issues, utilize art and beauty in their work, and develop character as they overcome obstacles in their cultural and denominational settings.

Through nearly one hundred interviews of women in Europe, Asia, Brazil, and the United States, a study of women's theologies of mission, lectures, and countless conversations with women around the globe, this study finds common themes among contemporary women doing Christian mission.

This book fills a lacuna in mission studies that professors, pastors, and church women and men will find informative and refreshing.

About the author

Frances S. Adeney is the William Benfield Jr. Professor Emerita of Evangelism and Global Mission at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. She is author of Christian Women in Indonesia, Christianity Encountering the World's Religions, Christianity and Human Rights, and Graceful Evangelism.

Product details

• Authors: Frances Adeney, Frances S. Adeney
• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9781498217194
• ISBN: 978-1-4982-1719-4
• No. of pages: 318
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 463 g
• Series: Missional Church, Public Theology, World Christianity
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Practical theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works