Encounters in Quest of Christian Womanhood

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Encounters in Quest of Christian Womanhood is written by Ulrike Sill and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004193731 (ISBN 10) and 9789004193734 (ISBN 13).

Christianity has come to be a religion embraced especially by women and not least in Africa. This book provides one of the as yet rare case studies for the early stages of this development: how African women on the pre- and early colonial Gold Coast (Ghana) encountered Basel Mission Christianity, 1843-1885. Popular interpretations have tended to describe Christianity as either ‘empowering’ or ‘domesticating’ African women. Looking at variegated push-and-pull factors and in its focus on the agency of Ghanaian women this detailed analysis moves beyond. It situates the quest for Christian womanhood as part of trans-national discourses and exchanges, as well as local interactions, and writes a social history that is at once transnational and transcultural.