This volume draws on a trove of unpublished original material from the pre-1940s to the present to offer a unique historiographic study of twentieth-century Methodist missionary work and women's active expression of faith, practised at the critical confluence of historical and global changes.

Sara Ashencaen Crabtree is Professor of Social and Cultural Diversity, Bournemouth University, UK, and Professor Emeritus, University of Stavanger, Norway. An internationally renowned social scientist, she publishes prolifically, on faith, gender, diversity, welfare and vulnerability.

1. Sketching the Sacred: An Introduction to a Contemporary Hagiography 2. Methodism: People, Passion and Piety 3. The Foundations of Faith: A Methodist Girlhood 4. War, Mercy, Hope and Charity 5. The 'Call' to India 6. Medical Mission in India and the Confluence of Worlds 7. The Road to Maua. 8. The Mutani and the Mau Mau. 9. New Jerusalems. 10. Conclusions: An Unfolding Legacy