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Changing roles of women within the Christian church in Canada /

Canadian religious history has been written with relatively little reference to the role of women. Throughout the years, the church itself has intensified this problem by restricting the options of women - excluding them from valued roles and senior positions. In the past, Christian women were oblig...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Muir, Elizabeth Gillan, 1934- (Editor ), Whiteley, Marilyn Färdig (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 1995.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Putting Together the Puzzle of Canadian Women's Christian Work / Elizabeth Gillan Muir and Marilyn Fardig Whiteley
  • 1. 'So Many Crosses to Bear': The Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph and the Tracadie Leper Hospital, 1868-1910 / Laurie C.C. Stanley
  • 2. Christian Perfection and Service to Neighbours: The Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Toronto, 1851-1920 / Elizabeth Smyth
  • 3. Nonconformity and Nonresistance: What Did It Mean to Mennonite Women? / Marlene Epp
  • 4. Sharing a Vision: Maritime Baptist Women Educate for Mission, 1870-1920 / H. Miriam Ross
  • 5. Two-thirds of the Revenue: Presbyterian Women and Native Indian Missions / John Webster Grant
  • 6. 'Let the Women Keep Silence': Women Missionary Preaching in British Columbia, 1860s-1940s / Margaret Whitehead
  • 7. Two Sexes Warring in the Bosom of a Single Mission Station: Feminism in the Canadian Methodist Japan Mission, 1881-1895 / Rosemary R. Gagan.