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Susan E. Smith, Women in Mission: From the New Testament to Today.

Publication: International Review of Mission
Publication Date: 01-JUL-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Susan E. Smith, Women in Mission: From the New Testament to Today, Maryknoll, N.Y., Orbis Books, 2007, 234 pp.

The present publication is part of the American Society of Missiology Series and constitutes the results of research led by the Catholic missiologist, lecturer emerita at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, Susan E. Smith, member of the Congregation of Our Lady of the Missions. Smith's interest is to redress the often neglected impact of women in the history of mission and to offer a critical analysis of the theological developments that have influenced women's participation in missions, with a particular emphasis on Catholic women in the modern era. She attempts to fill a desideratum in missiology by broadening the view on the history and theology of mission from a female perspective and adding a complementary scholarly voice to the publications of Dana L. Robert, Leslie Flemming, Mary Huber and others.

The author begins her study with an analysis of the New...

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