Christian Women in Indonesia: A Narrative Study of Gender and Religion engenders a careful balance between gender ideologies, local ethnography, social theory, Christian theology, and the challenges of doing research in the postmodern era. Sprinkled throughout the book are important missiological insights about the relationship between Christian theology and social realities, and the ways in which Christianity in Indonesia, introduced by North Atlantic Protestants and Roman Catholics, may have curtailed or encouraged gender justice in Indonesia. Given its discussion of gender and religion in Indonesia, Christian Women in Indonesia would appeal to Christians, Muslims, teachers in the non-Western world, and those interested in gender ideologies, mission Christianity, Southeast Asia, non-Western Christianity, and Christian sources of strength for women in Indonesia.-- "Missiology: In International Review"
One of the book's strengths is the author's own character, clearly revealed in the stories of her students. . . . This is a very helpful book with strong implications for gender justice struggles of North American women, particularly within the framework of church and university life.
Jourrnal of Church and State
Christian Women in Indonesia: A Narrative Study of Gender and Religion engenders a careful balance between gender ideologies, local ethnography, social theory, Christian theology, and the challenges of doing research in the postmodern era. Sprinkled throughout the book are important missiological insights about the relationship between Christian theology and social realities, and the ways in which Christianity in Indonesia, introduced by North Atlantic Protestants and Roman Catholics, may have curtailed or encouraged gender justice in Indonesia. Given its discussion of gender and religion in Indonesia, Christian Women in Indonesia would appeal to Christians, Muslims, teachers in the non-Western world, and those interested in gender ideologies, mission Christianity, Southeast Asia, non-Western Christianity, and Christian sources of strength for women in Indonesia.
Missiology: In International Review
Adeney's book contributes to the largely ignored issue of Asian Christian women's resistance, agency and empowerment through formal theological training for church-linked work, a valuable process to which she herself has contributed for over a decade.
Studies in the World Christianity
Making use of interviews, conference notes, and participant observations during stays in Java and Sulawesi, [Adeney] tells the stories of Christian women students who used their religion as a form of gender resistance and moral agency.
A important attempt to highlight the efforts of Christian women in Indonesia to become, if not theological and pastoral leaders in Indonesia, at least "co-workers" with male leaders in their church and academic communities. . . . [Frances Adeney] writes with empathy about the different Indonesian Christian women whose lives she has shared and touched, and because she used western moral development theories that attend to women's experience with a cultural sensitivity that validates her conclusions. . . . Her work is of value to those missioners, particularly women missioners, who wish to work with pastoral and cultural sensitivity among women of cultures other than their own. It is also an important text for western feminists who can often be unaware of more marked difficulties and challenges that confront their sisters in countries such as Indonesia.
Christian Women in Indonesia: A Narrative Study of Gender and Religion engenders a careful balance between gender ideologies, local ethnography, social theory, Christian theology, and the challenges of doing research in the postmodern era. Sprinkled throughout the book are important missiological insights about the relationship between Christian theology and social realities, and the ways in which Christianity in Indonesia, introduced by North Atlantic Protestants and Roman Catholics, may have curtailed or encouraged gender justice in Indonesia. Given its discussion of gender and religion in Indonesia, Christian Women in Indonesia would appeal to Christians, Muslims, teachers in the non-Western world, and those interested in gender ideologies, mission Christianity, Southeast Asia, non-Western Christianity, and Christian sources of strength for women in Indonesia.
Missiology: In International Review
