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- Title
AMERİKAN MİSYONERLİĞİNDE KADIN VE KADININ ROLÜ (ORTADOĞU ÖRNEĞİ).
- Authors
DALYAN, Murat Gökhan
- Abstract
American missionary began in the early years of the XIX century in the Middle East. However, taking into consideration of region's cultural fabric and history, missionaries who will be sent to here should have been married. In this manner missionary adaptation has been easily provided with societies in this region. In later years, depending on increasing the workload of married women and education policy of girls the single women missionaries began to send missions to the region. Under supervision of married missionary families, single women missionaries, who sent to this region worked as their staff assistant. The main work of women missionaries in the mission areas of the region are among women preaching, education and in the next period medical professions such as medicine. Because of difficult circumstances especially in the first period, missionary women who raised as a model for other women in the Middle East gave a very large losses. Despite of their positive contribution to missionary at the end of the XIX century, they have had a lower status than men, and they were not considered as missionaries. For these reasons they organized among themselves. In this study, women activities of American missioners in Middle East and the role of this in the organizations will be investigated.
- Subjects
MIDDLE East; AMERICAN Christian missions; WOMEN missionaries; PREACHING; MARRIED women; CHRISTIAN missions; RELIGIOUS education; MARRIED people in missionary work
- Publication
Electronic Turkish Studies, 2011, Vol 6, Issue 2, p341
- ISSN
1308-2140
- Publication type
Article