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Travelling for God and Adventure: Women Missionaries in the Late 19th Century

Travelling for God and Adventure: Women Missionaries in the Late 19th Century Travelling for God and Adventure: Women Missionaries in the Late l9th Century R oberta W ollons Department of History Indiana University Northwest Throughout the 19th century, women from the United States travelled as wives or alone to remote regions of the world under the auspices of mis- sionary work. One of the largest of the missionary organizations was the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM), origi- nating in Boston Massachusetts in 1810. The ABCFM, along with other missionary organizations, not only gave women the respectability and insti- tutional support they needed to travel and remain within the bounds of Victorian womanhood, but also elevated and in some cases made heroines of them. Historians have generally conceptualized missionaries within the framework of their Christian identity and evangelical goals, and often as cultural imperialists. This essay shifts the focus to the individual women missionaries as lone travellers, bringing their western cultural ideas and imaginings to politically tumultuous Turkey in the 19th century. The women in the study were educated at women’s colleges in the US and were, in turn, the founders of educational institutions for women and girls. In Turkey missionaries were prohibited from proselytizing among Muslims, and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Journal of Social Science Brill

Travelling for God and Adventure: Women Missionaries in the Late 19th Century

Asian Journal of Social Science , Volume 31 (1): 55 – Jan 1, 2003

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Brill
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© 2003 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1568-4849
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1568-5314
DOI
10.1163/156853103764778522
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Travelling for God and Adventure: Women Missionaries in the Late l9th Century R oberta W ollons Department of History Indiana University Northwest Throughout the 19th century, women from the United States travelled as wives or alone to remote regions of the world under the auspices of mis- sionary work. One of the largest of the missionary organizations was the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM), origi- nating in Boston Massachusetts in 1810. The ABCFM, along with other missionary organizations, not only gave women the respectability and insti- tutional support they needed to travel and remain within the bounds of Victorian womanhood, but also elevated and in some cases made heroines of them. Historians have generally conceptualized missionaries within the framework of their Christian identity and evangelical goals, and often as cultural imperialists. This essay shifts the focus to the individual women missionaries as lone travellers, bringing their western cultural ideas and imaginings to politically tumultuous Turkey in the 19th century. The women in the study were educated at women’s colleges in the US and were, in turn, the founders of educational institutions for women and girls. In Turkey missionaries were prohibited from proselytizing among Muslims, and

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Asian Journal of Social ScienceBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2003

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