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The last third of the 19th century witnessed a considerable increase in the active participation of women in the various Christian missions. Katharina Stornig focusses onthe Catholic case, and particularly explores the activities and experiences of German missionary nuns, the so-called Servants of the Holy Spirit,in colonial Togo and New Guinea in the late 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. Introducing the nuns' ambiguous roles as travelers, evangelists, believers, domestic workers, farmers, teachers, and nurses, Stornig highlights the ways in which these women shaped and were shaped b

Missions --- Nuns. --- History --- Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters --- History. --- Togoland --- New Guinea --- Church history. --- Sisters (in religious orders, congregations, etc.) --- Christians --- Monasticism and religious orders for women --- Christian missions --- Christianity --- Missions, Foreign --- Religion --- Theology, Practical --- Proselytizing --- Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit --- Kenangan Seabad S. Sp. S. --- Siervas del Espíritu Santo --- Steyler Missionsschwestern --- Sluzonbnice Ducha Sväteho --- Missionaria delle Serve dello Spirito Santo --- Zgromadzenie Misvine Stuzebnic Ducha 'Swietego --- Dienaressen van de Heilige Geest --- Missionária das Servas do Espírito Santo --- Sheng ling feng shih pu chiao hsiu tao nü hui --- Sŏngnyŏng Sunyŏhoe --- Servants of the Holy Spirit --- Servae Spiritus Sancti --- Congregatio Servarum Spiritus Sancti --- S.Sp.S. --- SSpS --- Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit of Perpetual Adoration --- Malay Archipelago --- Melanesia --- Togo (German colony) --- Togoland (French) --- Togoland (British) --- Togo --- Dienerinnen des Heiligen Geistes --- Missionarissen van het Goddelijk Woord --- Missionarissen van Steyl