Domestic Frontiers: Gender, Reform, and American Interventions in the Ottoman Balkans and the Near East
Domestic Frontiers examines the encounters of American Protestant missionaries with ethnic Bulgarian Orthodox Christians in the second half of the nineteenth century. Barbara Reeves-Ellington builds her narrative around the evangelical language of domesticity and home, which placed the educated Chri...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2014, Volume: 56, Issue: 4, Pages: 778-781 |
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| Summary: | Domestic Frontiers examines the encounters of American Protestant missionaries with ethnic Bulgarian Orthodox Christians in the second half of the nineteenth century. Barbara Reeves-Ellington builds her narrative around the evangelical language of domesticity and home, which placed the educated Christian wife and mother at the center of the Christian home. While being subordinate to her husband, she was expected to exercise moral authority over her family and community, thus shaping the character of the greater national body. Therefore, Christian women would not only be the nurturers of their own families, but also would act as models and teachers outside the family sphere. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csu086 |