{"product_id":"christian-imperial-feminism-9781479825530","title":"Christian Imperial Feminism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIlluminates how white American Protestant women embraced a racially specific version of social\u003cbr\u003einclusiveness that centered themselves as the norm\u003cbr\u003eAmidst the global instability of the early twentieth century, white Christian American women embraced\u003cbr\u003ethe idea of an empire of Christ that was racially diverse, but which they believed they were uniquely\u003cbr\u003equalified to manage. America's burgeoning power, combined with women's rising roles within the\u003cbr\u003echurch, led to white Protestant women adopting a feminism rooted in religion and imperialism.\u003cbr\u003eGale L. Kenny examines this Christian imperial feminism from the women's missionary movement to\u003cbr\u003ecreate a Christian world order. She shows that this Christian imperial feminism marked a break from an\u003cbr\u003eearlier Protestant world view that focused on moral and racial purity and in which interactions among\u003cbr\u003eraces were inconceivable. This new approach actually prioritized issues like civil rights and racial\u003cbr\u003eintegr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough close examinations of a wide range of practices from mission study to pageants to committee meetings to worship services, \u003ci\u003eChristian Imperial Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the ways that Protestant women embraced a Christian cosmopolitanism that simultaneously embraced diversity and sought to manage it…. A thoughtful exploration of Protestant churchwomen as full people with good intentions and deep flaws who took action in a world that they thought they understood far better than they actually did, with effects that they could not always predict. -- Emily Conroy Krutz, Christian Imperialism: Converting the World in the Early American Republic\u003cbr\u003eExpertly written…. Will be of most interest to historians, particularly those working on missions, Christian women, and US Christianity in the twentieth century. -- Hillary Kaell, author of Walking Where Jesus Walked: American Christians and Holy Land Pilgrimage\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409066631511,"sku":"9781479825530","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781479825530.jpg?v=1730505311","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/christian-imperial-feminism-9781479825530","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}