Christian Women in Indonesia
Subtitle: A Narrative Study of Gender and Religion (Women and Gender in North American Religion)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: January 14, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780815629566
Subjects: Christian ministry & pastoral activity; Women's studies; Women clergy; Missions & Missionary Work; Social Science; Women And The Church; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Religion; Indonesia; Christian Ministry - Missions; Christianity - History - Social Issues; Sociology of Religion; Women's Studies - General; Christian Theology - Anthropology; 20th century; Christian women; History
Description: "This important book offers an edifying narrative of Indonesian women who find a new and powerful voice in the course of preparing to become Christian pastors and theologians in their native land. By assuming roles of responsibility, these women stand ready to transform understandings of gender differences that have traditionally governed Indonesian culture, like the notion that women are an inferior sex and not suited to leadership.

In a broader sense, they join a growing global course toward gender equality and the evolution of women's spirituality." "Frances S. Adeney clearly shows how religious-inspired resistance led these women to create new practices and theologies designed to foster parity. Realizing that Western ideas are inapplicable to foreign issues of gender and religion, the author sheds light on the twin questions of cultural isolation and the complexities of doing research in the postmodern era."--BOOK JACKET.