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The religious history of American women : reimagining the past /

More than a generation after the rise of women's history alongside the feminist movement, it is still difficult, observes the author of this book, to locate women in histories of American religion. In this collection, contributors explore how considering the religious history of American women...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Brekus, Catherine A. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2007]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Searching for women in narratives of American religious history / Catherine A. Brekus
  • Puritan women, spiritual power, and the question of sexuality / Marilyn J. Westerkamp
  • Revelation, witchcraft, and the danger of knowing God's secrets / Elizabeth Reis
  • Hail Mary down by the riverside: black and white Catholic women in early America / Emily Clark
  • Sarah Osborn's enlightenment: reimagining Eighteenth-Century intellectual history / Catherine A. Brekus
  • Beyond the meetinghouse: women and Protestant spirituality in early America / Janet Moore Lindman
  • Unrespectable saints: women of the church of God in Christ / Anthea D. Butler
  • Women's popular literature as theological discourse: a Mormon case study, 1880-1920 / Susanna Morrill
  • The "new woman" at the "university": gender and American Catholic identity in the Progressive Era / Kathleen Sprows Cummings
  • Faith, feminism and history / Ann Braude
  • "Are you the white sisters or the black sisters?": women confounding categories of race and gender / Amy Koehlinger
  • Engendering dissent: women and American Judaism / Pamela S. Nadell
  • Little slices of Heaven and Mary's candy kisses: Mexican American women redefining Feminism and Catholicism / Kristy Nabhan-Warren.