Arabistan Protestan Misyonunun Gelişiminde Kadın Misyonerlerin Rolü

Öz

Bu çalışmamızda Arabistan yarımadasında Amerikan Protestan misyonerlik faaliyetlerinde kadın misyonerin konumunu incelemeye çalıştık. Arabistan misyonuna katılan kadın misyonerlerin sahip olduğu özelliklere göre üç bölüme ayırdığımız konunun ilk bölümünde misyona katılan misyoner eşlerinin misyonun bölgede yer edinmesi ve yerel kadınlar arasındaki faaliyetlerine değindik. İkinci bölümde ise bekâr bayan misyonerlerin misyona katılımını irdeleyerek Arabistan misyonunun sağlık alanına yoğunlaşmasını ve yerel kız çocuklarının eğitimine verdikleri önemi tartıştık. Araştırmamızın üçüncü bölümünde ise Profesyonel bayan misyonerlerin misyon tarafından nasıl ve hangi amaçlar doğrultusunda istihdam edildiğini vurgulayarak Petrol zenginliği ile gelişen bölgenin misyonun yapısına ve faaliyetlerine nasıl yansıdığının üzerinde durduk. Son olarak çalışmamızın sonuç bölümünde, Arabistan misyonunun Protestanlığa adam kazandırma mücadelesinde neden başarısız olduğunu fakat Arap kadının sosyal, kültürel ve toplum içindeki statüsünün artmasında ve şekillenmesinde nasıl başarılı olduklarına değindik. 

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Arabistan Misyonu,Protestanlık,Amerikan Misyonerlik Faaliyetleri

The Role of Female Missionaries in the Develeopment of the Arabian Protestant Mission

Öz

In our research we tried to inquire the place of women missionaries in the American Protestant missionary movement in the Arabian peninsula. We divided the subject as three periods according to the women missionaries who worked for the mission, their marital status and profession. In the first part, the role of missionary wives in Protestant missionary activities among indigenous women and girls of Arabia and the effort of formulating the mission structure and development in the peninsula. In the second part, it was debated that how and why single female missionaries started to join the mission and why these missionaries  intensively improved mission’s health care service in the region and also turned their faces to the education of young girls. At the third part of the research, it was analyzed that way and with what kind of targets that the missionary organization decided to employ professional women missionaries and what is more, how oil investments changed the economic climate of the region and the impact of this oil richness on the missionary activities. Finally, the reasons that coursed the failure of the mission about conversion was taken into inquire and also the success of the mission on increasing the women’s statue in the Arabian society, culture and traditions. 

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Arabian Mission,Protestantism,American Missionary Activities

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