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God Speaks to Us, Too : Southern Baptist Women on Church, Home, and Society.

How can women find strength, courage, and motivation in a religious denomination that believes in the necessity of a wife's submission to her husband? In God Speaks to Us, Too, Susan M. Shaw shows that Southern Baptist women are surprisingly more complex and rebellious than outside observers mi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shaw, Susan M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents ; Preface; Introduction: Raised Right
  • The Making of Southern Baptist Identity; Being Baptist; Southern Baptist Identity; Gathering the Stories; The Clique; Other Participants; Making Sense of All the Stories; Making Meaning and Making Identity; Raised Right; Sunbeams, Sword Drills, and Age-Graded Curriculum; Race, Place, and Generation; Soul Competency; 1. Just as I Am: Southern Baptist Womens Experiences of Salvation and Baptism; Southern Baptists and Conversion; Believer's Baptism by Immersion.
  • 2. The B-I-B-L-E: Southern Baptist Women and the BibleSword Drills and Memory Verses; The Right to Interpret Scripture; Biblical Inerrancy and the Southern Baptist Controversy; What Does the Bible Say about Women?; What Do Women Say about the Bible?; The Bible and Women's Sense of Self; 3. Casseroles and Covered Dishes: Southern Baptist Women, Hospitality, and Friendship; Southern Womanhood; Southern Hospitality; Community and Women's Friendships; 4. Red and Yellow, Black and White: The Dynamics of Race in the Lives of Southern Baptist Women; I Never Knew Any Different; Mixed Messages.
  • We Would Play with the ChildrenWe All Realized that It Was Wrong; Keeping the Cars Coupled; Our Relation to Persons of African Descent Has Been Less than Ideal; Becoming Antiracist; My Identity Is in Christ; 5. We've a Story to Tell: Southern Baptist Women and Ministry; Lottie Moon and Annie Armstrong; Girls' Auxiliary, Forward Steps, and Acteens; Serving Southern Baptists; Rumblings; The Mother Seminary; When Women Preach; Backlash; Survival Strategies; New Generations; 6. Gracious Submission: Southern Baptist Women and the Family; The Centrality of Family; Gender and Hierarchy.
  • The Neck that Turns the HeadThe Dark Side of Male Dominance and Female Submission; Egalitarian Relationships; Family and Ministry; Wife, Mother, and Minister; All Mothers Are Working Mothers; Women on Their Own; Invisible and Unspeakable; 7. Am Woman: Southern Baptist Women and Feminism; The Generational Divide; Of Course Im a Feminist; I'm Not a Feminist, But. . .; Bra-Burning Militants and Other Mythical Feminist Beasts; Untroubling Gender: Southern Baptist Women's Construction of Gender; 8. Competent before God: Southern Baptist Women and Soul Competency; Being Baptist.
  • The Priesthood of BelieversI Can Read It for Myself; Autonomy of the Local Church; Democratic Church Governance; Separation of Church and State; The Cooperative Program; Cast of Characters; Notes; Index.