Christianity and the Modern Woman in East Asia

These chapters examine pathbreaking East Asian women who mobilized Christian beliefs, knowledge, institutions, and networks between 1880 and 1945 to raise the profile of "The Woman Question," frame the contours of the related debate, and craft original responses.

About the author

Garrett L. Washington, Ph.D. (2010), Purdue University, is Assistant Professor of History at The University of Massachusetts Amherst. His representative publications include "Preaching Modern Japan: National Imaginaries and Protestant Sermons in Meiji and Taishō Tokyo," in David Yoo and Albert Park, eds., Encountering Modernity: Christianity in East Asia and Asian America (University of Hawaii Press, 2014).

Product details

• Assisted by: Garrett L Washington (Editor), Garrett L. Washington (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.09.2018
• EAN: 9789004369092
• ISBN: 978-90-04-36909-2
• No. of pages: 264
• Weight: 550 g
• Series: Brill's Modern East Asia in a
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories