Taking Christianity to China: Alabama Missionaries in the Middle Kingdom, 1850-1950 by Wayne Flynt & Gerald W. Berkley

Author:Wayne Flynt & Gerald W. Berkley [Flynt, Wayne & Berkley, Gerald W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion, History, Christian Ministry, Missions
ISBN: 9780817308339
Google: KEf2jPNcsjYC
Amazon: 0817308334
Barnesnoble: 0817308334
Goodreads: 1446347
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Published: 1996-12-31T22:00:00+00:00

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Whatever disadvantages single women suffered in China, they avoided the marital tensions that seemed to be common there. Some missionary marriages were uncommonly strong. Others collapsed under the stress. Either way, Alabama women were neither prudish nor oblivious to the special problems posed by sexuality in China.

Many Alabama women believed it better for single missionaries to marry as soon as possible. Hardly had Martha Crawford arrived than she began to psychoanalyze a single male colleague. She believed that he would have been much happier had he married before setting sail for China. He had courted women, but his affection for an old flame prevented commitment. He had also wooed several women who were not religious. Crawford judged him to value beauty more than "quality of mind or heart." Two single Episcopalian missionaries in Shanghai were far more fortunate in her view. She believed that their marriage to each other would make them "happier and more useful" than if they remained single. 49

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