The Legacy of Peggy Hiscock: European Women's Contribution to the Growth of Christianity in Zambia
The history of Christianity in Africa contains selected information reflecting patriarchal preoccupations. Historians have often downplayed the contributions of significant women, both European and indigenous African. The names of some significant women are given without details of their contributio...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2020]
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Feminist theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 28, Issue: 3, Pages: 316-333 |
| IxTheo Classification: | FD Contextual theology KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KDG Free church |
| Further subjects: | B
European women
B Zambia B Christianity B Peggy Hiscock |
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| Summary: | The history of Christianity in Africa contains selected information reflecting patriarchal preoccupations. Historians have often downplayed the contributions of significant women, both European and indigenous African. The names of some significant women are given without details of their contribution to the growth of Christianity in Africa. This article considers the contributions of Peggy Hiscock to the growth of Christianity in Zambia. Hiscock was a White missionary who was sent to serve in Zambia by the Methodist Church in Britain. She was the first woman to have been ordained in the United Church of Zambia. Hiscock established the Order of Diaconal Ministry and founded a school for the training of deaconesses in the United Church of Zambia. This article argues that although the nineteenth- and twentieth-century missionary movement in Africa is associated with patriarchy and European imperialism, there were European women missionaries who resisted imperialism and patriarchy both in the Church and society. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5189 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Feminist theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0966735020906940 |