Female Christian Research Articles

Tamil Christian Women at the Turn of the Millennium: mission initiatives and gender practice

This article is based on recent research about Tamil churchwomen. It brings out how these women are empowered by their female Christian identity and their involvement in the church's mission and evangelistic initiatives, such as house prayer groups. Featuring oral testimonies from a wide variety of women members of Risen Redeemer's Church of South India, the study describes women's mission initiatives, with an emphasis on female participation in church life. It offers a brief overview of three empowering aspects of the informants' Christianity: family heritage, faith through adversity, and biblical concepts of female entitlement. Finally, it explores the women's sense of empowerment through their general involvement in church life by an in‐depth analysis of several individual cases.

A thirteenth-century Anglo-Jewish woman crossing boundaries: visible and invisible

In 1242, the private life of an Anglo-Jewish couple, Muriel and David of Oxford, became very public when David asked the royal curia to intervene in the Jewish court ( bet din) which had either refused or stalled his divorce from the childless Muriel. The curia not only agreed to force the divorce, but used it as an excuse to ban all betai din, catching the whole Anglo-Jewish community in the growing anti-Judaism of the time. Though David married a fertile widow who bore him a son shortly before his death in 1244, Muriel lived on in growing poverty. David was the most prominent financier of his time but examining the story from Muriel's usually silent point of view allows us insights into the life of a woman in a growing academic town. Her story especially highlights how she might have interacted with both male and female Christians in her daily life as well as in seeking help with her especially feminine problem of infertility.

Clash of Cultures: Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process

The paper explores the evolution of ethnic identities of two important and distinct immigrant religious groups. Using data from Germany, a large European country with many immigrants, we study the adaptation processes of Muslims and Christians. Individual data on language, culture, societal interactions, history of migration and ethnic self-identification are used to compose linear measures of the process of cultural adaptation. Two-dimensional variants measure integration, assimilation, separation and marginalization. Christians adapt more easily to the German society than Muslims. Immigrants with schooling in the home country and with older age at entry as well as female Muslims remain stronger attached to the country of origin. Female Muslims integrate and assimilate less and separate more than Muslim men, while there is no difference between male and female Christians. Christians who were young at entry are best integrated or assimilated, exhibiting lower separation and marginalization in the later years, while for Muslims a similar pattern is observed only for assimilation and separation. Christian immigrants with college or higher education in the home country integrate well, but Muslims do not. For both religious groups, school education in the home country leads to slower assimilation and causes more separation than no education at home. While school education has no impact on integration efforts for Muslim, it affects similar attempts of Christians negatively.

Die aktiwiteit van die belydende GKSAvrouelidmaat tydens die erediens

The activity of the female communicant during worship services in the Reformed Churches in South Africa (GKSA) This article is a report of research done on how a female communicant in the GKSA can be active in Christ while certain traditions tie her tongue, hands and feet. By attempting to outline the internal and external activity of female communicants during worship, this article attempts to determine empirically the extent to which current church practice is Scriptural within The Reformed tradition. Definite and specific tendencies regarding the nature of female ministerial empowerment in the churches have been noticed. Suggestions concerning expanding the involvement by women during worship services have also been indicated. A possible response to the questions raised in this regard depends on the attitude and willingness of the GKSA to correct inhibiting and unbiblical traditions and to reform according to the essence of the Bible. Real reformation is the only way to ensure that a Reformed scriptural approach towards female Christians will be practised in future – an approach that will enable female members to participate fully in worship services.

'Seo fæmne þa lærde swa lange þone cniht oðþæt he ge-lyfde on þone lifigendan god': The Christian Wife as Converter and Ælfric's Anglo-Saxon Audience'

Ælfric's translation and adaptation of the traditional Latin Life of Cecilia in his Old English Lives of Saints foregrounds the theme of Christian conversion as it recounts the story of Cecilia, who, forced into marriage despite having dedicated herself to Christ, maintains her virginity and converts her husband to Christianity. As a document showing a woman who is both a virgin and a wife preaching the importance of simple faith in Christian conversion and salvation, at the social and communal level it recalls the important role women played in the Christianisation of England and serves as a particularly effective didactic and celebratory tool for Anglo-Saxon female monastic readers and listeners. Significantly, this segment of Æltric's audience contained not only the traditional virgin brides of Christ but also widowed or divorced wives, so that Cecilia's example at the personal and individual level reinforced and glorified a broad range of female Christian vocation.

Elizabeth Barrett’s Poetry of Exile: Difficulties of a Female Christian Romanticism

Elizabeth Barrett’s Poetry of Exile: Difficulties of a Female Christian Romanticism

Early Christian Women and Pagan Opinion. The Power of the Hysterical Woman by Margaret Y. MacDonald

Early Christian Women and Pagan Opinion. The Power of the Hysterical Woman. By Margaret Y MacDonald. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 1996. Pp. xiv, 276. $54.95 hardback; $19.95 paperback.) Feminist books have been appearing recently in great numbers, and they vary in quality. Those that deal with Christian history are mostly respectable scholarly books, and many of them rank among enduring academic achievements. This one can be called a feminist book only because its topic early Christian women; otherwise it a serious historical-exegetical study. The author, who teaching in the religious studies department of the University of Ottawa (Canada), has previously published an essay on the Pauline and Deutero-Pauline churches and several articles in scholarly journals on early Christian women. She must have received the inspiration for the present book from these earlier studies, which she successfully incorporated in her new book. Nothing wrong with this procedure; on the contrary, it gives the reader the assurance that the book based on long, careful research. The book consists of three major components. First, there a lengthy review of cultural-anthropologists' and sociologists' works pertaining to the author's topic. This part a very interesting and informative review of what crosscultural studies can do to make us better understand women's place in ancient societies. The concepts of honor (associated with males) and shame (= reputation, associated with females) are discussed in detail. Then we are told that to clearly understand women's situation we must be aware of the concepts of public (male) and private (female) power and authority-all of which explained thoroughly. But when we come to the statement that to understand women's lives more attention should be given to chronological, geographical, and even architectural variation (p. 37), one begins to wonder just how far this scholarly hairsplitting should go. Do we have to define first what the meaning of is before we can talk about early Christian women? The second major topic of the book the pagans' reaction to early Christian women. This topic (pagan reaction to Christianity) has been adequately researched by many scholars, and Mrs. MacDonald knows them all and duly quotes them. But ancient society was not as aware of the blessings of diversity (divided we stand, united we fall) as some in modern America are, and references specifically to women are rare; most ancient authors deal with Christianity as a strange phenomenon and not with male and female Christians. …

TOWARD WHOLESOME NURTURE: CHALLENGES IN THE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION OF ASIAN NORTH AMERICAN FEMALE CHRISTIANS

Abstract What factors come into play in the religious education of female Christians whose identity is rooted in Asia's great civilizations and faiths? How appropriate or adequate are programs and resources designed with mainstream Christians in mind? This paper begins by addressing three specific areas: (a) image‐forming sources (sociocultural, Judaeo‐Christian scriptures, and contemporary fiction/films); (b) “in‐terreligious dialogue within the self”; and (c) the impact of role models or the lack thereof. Educational strategies embodying liberative praxis with the goal of working toward more wholesome and holistic nurture and education for these Christians are then explored.

Preferences for Christian names as a function of their experienced familiarity

A sample of 80 English subjects and a comparable sample of 80 Australian subjects rated their familiarity with, or their liking for, either 100 randomly selected male Christian names or 100 randomly selected female Christian names. Positive linear relationships between familiarity and favourability, ranging from r = 0–568 (P > 0.001) for female names in the Australian sample to r = 0.824 P < 0.001) for male names in the English sample, were found. The results are discussed in the light of monotonic (Zajonc‐type) and non‐monotonic (inverted U‐type) functions relating to two variables which have been found in previous research with other classes of stimuli.

Traditional and Non-Traditional Religious Interests among Female College-Age Christians

Traditional and Non-Traditional Religious Interests among Female College-Age Christians

Elma, a female Christian name

Elma, a female Christian name

Men with Female Christian Names

Men with Female Christian Names

Men with Female Christian Names

Men with Female Christian Names

A Man with a Female Christian Name

A Man with a Female Christian Name

Men with Female Christian Names

Men with Female Christian Names

Kinborough as a female Christian name

Kinborough as a female Christian name

Kinborough as a female Christian name

Kinborough as a female Christian name

Alson, a female Christian name

Alson, a female Christian name

Alson, a female Christian name

Journal Article Alson, a female Christian name Get access H. H. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s6-XII, Issue 302, 10 October 1885, Page 293, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s6-XII.302.293f Published: 10 October 1885

Alson, a female Christian name

Alson, a female Christian name