Forgotten Souls
A Feminist Postcolonial Preaching on the Role of Women in Mission within an Indonesian Local Church Contemporary Narratives
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https://doi.org/10.55935/thilo.v4i1.247Keywords:
feminist postcolonial preaching, mission, missionary women, subaltern, testimonyAbstract
The stories of the western male missionary are commonly and widely known in mission history. This article, however, reclaims the widely forgotten stories of women missionaries as authentic mission narratives relevant to the contemporary mission preaching conducted in the local Indonesian churches such as the Evangelical Christian Church in Minahasa. This article uses a feminist postcolonial perspective to argue that women missionaries are postcolonial subjects. It further uses their narratives to shape the local church's sermon as a "counter-testimony" to the grand Christian mission narratives that often forget women missionaries' voices and roles.
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