Missionary Families: Race, Gender and Generation on the Spiritual Frontier

by Emily Manktelow

Missionary families were an integral component of the missionary enterprise, both as active agents on the global religious stage and as a force within the enterprise that shaped understandings and theories of mission itself. Taking the family as a legitimate unit of historical analysis in its own right for the first time, Missionary families traces changing familial policies and lived realities throughout the nineteenth century and powerfully argues...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719087589
• ISBN13: 9780719087585
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.4"