<div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues,<div>Today on the blog, Ingie Hovland discusses her book, <i style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:11pt;letter-spacing:0.1pt;background-color:transparent">Life in Language: Mission
Feminists and the Emergence of a New Protestant Subject </i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:11pt;letter-spacing:0.1pt;background-color:transparent">with</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:11pt;letter-spacing:0.1pt;background-color:transparent"> Retief Müller.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:11pt;letter-spacing:0.1pt;background-color:transparent"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:11pt;letter-spacing:0.1pt;background-color:transparent"><a href="http://www.campanthropology.org">www.campanthropology.org</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:11pt;letter-spacing:0.1pt;background-color:transparent"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:11pt;letter-spacing:0.1pt;background-color:transparent">Best,</span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:11pt;letter-spacing:0.1pt;background-color:transparent">Ilana</span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:11pt;letter-spacing:0.1pt;background-color:transparent"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:11pt;letter-spacing:0.1pt;background-color:transparent">Press blurb: </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-family:"Source Serif Pro","Times New Roman","serif";font-size:18px">The language of the Bible is a powerful lens through which many Protestants understand themselves and their world, and its prohibitions on women’s speech pose complicated challenges to women. Nevertheless, women frequently serve as vocal leaders in Protestant organizations, including the early twentieth-century Norwegian Mission Society. In </span><i style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-family:"Source Serif Pro","Times New Roman","serif";font-size:18px">Life in Language</i><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-family:"Source Serif Pro","Times New Roman","serif";font-size:18px">, Ingie Hovland offers a unique biography of Henny Dons, a leader of the society’s so-called mission feminists, that grapples with ways Protestant women crafted innovative, expansive self-understandings through Christian language. More than their male peers, the mission feminists turned to religious speech to express material, as well as heavenly, desires for paid work, voting rights, and more, and Hovland argues that these experiments in women speaking, reading, writing, and listening paved the way for a new way of being in the world.</span></div></div>