26 November 2025

 “First Converts: Acts 16 and the Legitimating Function of High-Standing Women in Missionary Propaganda”,  in Shelly Matthews, First Converts: Rich Pagan Women and the Rhetoric of Mission In Early Judaism and Christianity (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001), 72–95

"Notes", in Shelly Matthews, First Converts: Rich Pagan Women and the Rhetoric of Mission In Early Judaism and Christianity (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001).

The notes for Chapter 4 are on pages 131-141.

Gari Ledyard, “Kollumba Kang Wansuk, an Early Catholic Activist and Martyr”, in Christianity in Korea, edited by Robert Buswell Jr. and Timothy Lee (Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi, 2006), 38–71.

Kevin Crawley, “Dangerous Women in the Early Catholic Church in Korea”  in Religious Transformation in Modern Asia. A Transnational Movement, edited by David W. Kim (Leiden: Brill, 2015), 76–97, on Kang Wansuk, especially 84–87.

“Mary Mitchell Slessor: Serving God and Country”, in William Knox, The Lives of Scottish Women. Women and Scottish Society 1800-1980 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006), 117–39.

Oluwakemi A. Adesina and Elijah Obinna, “Invoking Gender. The Thoughts, Mission and Theology of Mary Slessor in Southern Nigeria”, in Africa in Scotland, Scotland in Africa : Historical Legacies and Contemporary Hybridities, edited by Afe Adogame and Andrew Lawrence (Leiden: Brill, 2014), 204–27.

Here is the PowerPoint presentation for this class.