Title: "Providence has freed our hands"
Subtitle: women's missions and the American encounter with Japan
First published: 2008
Description: "In "Providence Has Freed Our Hands," Karen K. Seat tells the history of women's foreign missions in Japan and reveals the considerable role they played in liberalizing American understandings of Christianity, gender, and race." "The author uses the story of Elizabeth Russell, a colorful missionary to Japan, to illustrate the key issues shaping Protestant women's missions. As a member of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, one of the most powerful women's institutions of the late nineteenth century, Russell founded a progressive school for girls in Japan, defying conservatives not only within her own denomination but also in the government of Japan. Transformed by their experiences in Japan, missionaries like Russell became forceful advocates for racial tolerance and women's rights"--Jacket.
Subjects: Women missionaries, Missions, Women in missionary work, Church history, Methodist Episcopal Church, Methodist episcopal church, missions, Missions, japan, United states, church history
Places: United States, Japan
People: Elizabeth Russell (1836-1928)
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: BV2610 .S43 2008