TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hodgson,Dorothy Louise
TI  - The church of women: gendered encounters between Maasai and missionaries 
SN  - 9780253111210
AV  - BV3625.T4 H63 2005eb
U1  - 266/.2678/082 22
PY  - 2005///]
CY  - Bloomington, IN
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - Missions
KW  - Tanzania
KW  - Congregation of the Holy Ghost
KW  - Église catholique
KW  - Tanzanie
KW  - Pères du Saint-Esprit
KW  - Congrégation du Saint-Esprit
KW  - fast
KW  - Women, Maasai
KW  - Religious life
KW  - Maasai (African people)
KW  - Religion
KW  - Femmes massaï
KW  - Vie religieuse
KW  - Massaï (Peuple d'Afrique)
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Ministry
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; "Oh she who brings the rain" -- Men of the church -- Evangelizing "the Maasai" -- The church of women -- Being a man in the church of women -- Possessed by the Spirit -- Toward a Maasai Catholicism?
N2  - In Africa, why have so many more women converted to Christianity than men? What explains the appeal of Christianity to women? What does religious conversion mean for the negotiation of gender and ethnic identity? What role does religious conversion play as a tool for empowering women? In The Church of Women, Dorothy L. Hodgson looks at how gender has shaped the encounter between missionary priests and Maasai men and women in Tanzania. Building on her extensive experience with Maasai and the Spiritan missi
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