"Favored as We Are": Early Protestant Missions, Cultural Imperialism, and the Liberating Power of the Bible.

The article discusses studies from history professor Phillip Jenkins on women in world Christianity as examples of the power of God's Word to speak to the fullness of global womanhood. Topics mentioned include an increase of education for American women in the early 19th century, and the literacy gap between men and women in New England, and violence against women in the non-Western world at the beginning of American missions.