Canadian Baptist mission work among women in Andhra, India, 1874-1924: Baptist women evolved a role for themselves in an otherwise male-dominated mission enterprise and a patriarchal Telugu society.

From: Baptist History and Heritage | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Many indigenous cultural factors affected the process of women playing an active role and seizing the initiative in the mission enterprise. Increasing women's assertion movements across the world at the dusk of the nineteenth century and the sense of solidarity among women transcending all ethnic boundaries fostered the women's participation in the growth of a Baptist church and the Telugu Renaissance. The missionary enterprise created opportunities for women to serve and assert their status in church and society.

The avenues of women's participation included various ...

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