“The Angels of Progress in Brazil”: North-American Protestant women missionaries (1870-1920)

Authors

  • Eliane Moura da Silva

Keywords:

history, gender, protestant missionarism, Brazil, XIX Century

Abstract

This work is about the relationship between gender and religion from a study of the cultural history of the American Protestant missionary in Brazil between 1870 and 1920. The gender dynamics between American missionaries and the natives women occurred in different ways: in contact with native women, the missionaries had to negotiate not only relations with their beliefs, their feelings and with the male structures of power, but also with the sets of rules and restrictions in their new relations in Brazil.

Author Biography

Eliane Moura da Silva

Professora Livre Docente de História Contemporânea do Departamento de História da Universidade Estadual de Campinas – UNICAMP,

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Vol. 12 No. 1 (2012): História da Religião - Perspectivas Culturalistas

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Seção Temática

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