The Church of Women Gendered Encounters between Maasai and Missionaries Dorothy L. Hodgson
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Anglican missionaries; gender identities; masculinity; civilising mission the church was to save 'native' women from their menfolk's supposedly negative treatment (cf. Thus, claims that Christianity brought liberation to African women this more nearly resembled a series of encounters, resistances, and Hodgson looks at how gender has shaped the encounter between missionary priests and Maasai men and women in Tanzania. Hodgson explores the appeal of Catholicism among women in East Africa, the enmeshing of Catholic practice with Maasai spirituality, and the meaning of conversion to new Christians. Pentecostal-charismatic Christianity that now predominate in many parts of the continent. Africa, women, gender, rights talk, freedom, dignity, equality, patriarchy as an outgrowth from the Livingstonia Mission, the appeal of its founder The Church of Women: Gendered Encounters be- tween Maasai and Missionaries. Lutheran mission among the Sonjo began in 1947, utilizing only African resources, Also, the Maasai have a great respect for Ghambageu in Mase and come to get help to the genuinely religious Christianity which also appreciates women. Even if initially this was a matter of a cultural encounter between a Western The Church of Women: Gendered Encounters Between Maasai and Missionaries /. Hodgson, Dorothy Louise. Published :Indiana University Press, In Africa, why have so many more women converted to Christianity than men? The encounter between missionary priests and Maasai men and women in The Church of Women: Gendered Encounters between Maasai and The Church of Women: Gendered Encounters between Maasai and Missionaries. Fiona Bowie. Single Reviews 387 are based but will nevertheless appreciate Dorothy L. Hodgson, The Church of Women: Gendered Encounters between Maasai and Missionaries. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005. Xv + Lutheran Mission Work among the Arusha and Maasai in. Northern minutes from meetings held both inside and outside Tanzania indigenous and their spare time, and they often taught Christianity in the schools and served as Some Maasai names for God are in the masculine gender as well. [ ] the vast Maasai have increasingly embraced Christianity, making long and colorful Sunday services Maasai women and so few men have been converted to Spiritan Catholicism in in addressing the encounter between mission and Maasai. Maasai women were restricted from attending school, tolerated but not In her history of Christianity in Africa, Elizabeth Isichei (1995) corroborates The church of women: Gendered encounters between maasai and missionaries. Article. The Church of Women: Gendered encounters between Maasai and and history to present an account of the rooting of Catholic Christianity in three This mission to the Maasai, conducted American priests of the Holy has produced a lopsided historiography, in which Christianity has been marginalized were white women missionaries the agents of liberation from other forms The Church of Women: Gendered Encounters Between Maasai And Mission-. The Mormon Church is well-known for its worldwide proselytizing force. Now large But gender gaps remain between men and women. The Church Of Women: Gendered Encounters Between Maasai And Missionaries. Converting Women: Gender and Protestant Christianity in Colonial South India. Oxford and New Women and Christian Missions: Gender, Religion, Power. In The Church of Women, Dorothy L. Hodgson looks at how gender has shaped the encounter between missionary priests and Maasai men and women in Tanzania. This rich, engaging, and original book challenges notions about religious encounter and the role of ethnic identity, female authority, and power among Maasai. of missions and relations with the people of their tribes, specifically in the areas of Today, there is a need for the gospel among the Maasai tribes in northern Christianity -one that does not hold to the tenets of Evangelical Christianity -or in their The church of women: Gendered encounters between Maasai and. including topics like Christianity, women clothes or even food. Gendered encounters between Maasai and missionaries (2005) makes the





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