An Historiography of Twentieth-Century Womens Missionary Nursing Through the Li [Hardcover]

1. Sketching the Sacred: An Introduction to a Contemporary Hagiography? 2. Methodism: People, Passion and Piety? 3. The Foundations of Faith: A Methodist Girlhood? 4. War, Mercy, Hope and Charity? 5. The Call to India? 6. Medical Mission in India and the Confluence of Worlds? 7. The Road to Maua.? 8. The Mutani and the Mau Mau.? 9. New Jerusalems.? 10. Conclusions: An Unfolding Legacy

This volume draws on a trove of unpublished original material from the pre-1940s to the present to offer a unique historiographic study of twentieth-century Methodist missionary work and womens active expression of faith, practised at the critical confluence of historical and global changes.

Sara Ashencaen Crabtree is Professor of Social and Cultural Diversity, Bournemouth University, UK, and Professor Emeritus, University of Stavanger, Norway. An internationally renowned social scientist, she publishes prolifically, on faith, gender, diversity, welfare and vulnerability.

This volume draws on a trove of unpublished original material from the pre-1940s to the present to offer a unique historiographic study of twentieth century Methodist missionary work and womens active expression of faith practised at the critical confluence of historical and global changes.

The study focuses on two English Methodist missionary nursing sisters and siblings, Audrey and Muriel Chalkely, whose words and experiences are captured in detail, foregrounding tumultuous socio-political changes of the end of Empire and post-Independence in twentieth-century Kenya and South India. The work presents a timely revision to prevailing post-colonial critiques in placing the fundamental importance of human relationships centre stage. Offering a detailed (auto)biographical and reflective narrative, this herstory pivots on three main thematic strands relating to people,l£”