Details for Women in Christian History
TBA
Quick Info
- Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
- Course code: HIS520
- Credit points: 10
- Subject coordinator: Jacqueline Grey
Prerequisites
The following courses are prerequisites:
Awards offering Women in Christian History
This unit is offered as a part of the following awards:
Unit Content
Outcomes
Upon completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Demonstrate a detailed knowledge of the role of prominent women in early and medieval Christian history.
- Demonstrate a detailed understanding of the variety of contributions of women in modern Christian history and their key characteristics.
- Exhibit an ability to research the historical record from primary and secondary sources and critically analyse the results.
- Critically evaluate the role of Christian women in history, including within religious and secular communities.
- Explain and communicate a variety of divergent attitudes regarding women in ministry during the 20th and 21st centuries.
- Recognise the contribution of Australian women to Christianity.
Assessment Methods
Forum, Essay, Group Project
Representative References
Brewington, Carla, The sacred place of exile: pioneering women and the need for a new women’s missionary movement, Eugene OR: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2013.
Clifton, Shane and Jacqueline Grey, eds, Raising women leaders: perspectives on liberating women in pentecostal and charismatic contexts, Sydney: Australasian Pentecostal Studies , 2009.
Cohick, Lynn H., Women in the world of the earliest Christians: illuminating ancient ways of life, Ada, MI: Baker Academic, 2009.
Curtis, Kenneth and Dan Graves, Great women in Christian history: 37 women who changed their world, Worcester, PA: Christian History Institute, 2005.
Curtis, Sarah A., Civilizing habits: women missionaries and the revival of French empire, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Harding, Mark. Early Christian life and thought in social context, London and New York: Continuum, 2003.
Ingersoll, Julie, Evangelical Christian women: war stories in the gender battles,New York: New York University Press, 2003.
Lubin, Elizabeth Dorn, Reforming Japan: the woman’s Christian Temperance Union in the Meiji period, Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 2010.
MacHaffie, Barbara J., Her story: women in Christian tradition 2nd edition, Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2006.
O’Brien, Anne, God's willing workers: women and religion in Australia, Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2005.
Prevost, Elizabeth E., The communion of women: missions and gender in colonial Africa and the British Metropole,New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Ruether, Rosemary Radford, Women and redemption: a theological history, Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2011.
Seton, Rosemary, Western daughters in eastern lands: British missionary women in Asia,Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2013.
Turpin, Joanne, Women in church history: 21 stories for 21 centuries, Cincinnati, OH: St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2007.
Upson-Saia, Kristi, Early Christian dress: gender, virtue, and authority, New York:Routledge, 2011.