Gender, Religion, and the Heathen Lands
Subtitle: American Missionary Women in South Asia, 1860s-1940s (Gender, Culture, and Global Politics)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9780815328247
Subjects: Christian mission & evangelism; Cultural studies; Social & cultural anthropology; Women's studies; Women missionaries; Religion; Missions; Women - 19th Century History; Religion - Church Life; Sociology; Indian sub-continent; South East Asia; Christian Ministry - Missions; Christianity - History - General; Political Science / General; Women's Studies - General; India; History; Missions, American; United States
First sentence: When William Carey, inspired by zeal to do something about the "degraded state of heathen lands" arrived in Calcutta an November 11, 1793, aboard the Princess Maria, he was denied entry as a missionary and told that restrictions by the East India Company did not permit religious teaching to the colonized people.