The Dutch Reformed Women's Missionary Movement from the Cape and the Mt. Holyoke Connection

By Dana L Robert

This book reinterprets the history of South African Dutch Reformed missions as a women's movement. It traces American women missionaries from Mt. Holyoke College who went to southern Africa in the late 1800s to teach Dutch Reformed girls. Dutch Reformed women then formed a missionary network to send the educated women throughout southern Africa, and into Malawi and Zimbabwe. Missionary women modeled a combination of education and piety that inspired African church women's leadership and enabled Reformed churches to spread throughout the region. Not only does the book show how American women introduced a distinctive missionary piety into Reformed missions, but it also places women at the center of southern African mission history.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9996080277
• ISBN13: 9789996080272
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Luviri Press
• Length: 68 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.8" x 8.3"