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Changing Roles of Women within the Christian Church in Canada /

Seventeen Canadian scholars tell the stories of individuals who have worked in traditional and nontraditional roles, alone and as members of groups, both within and outside church structures. All of the articles present new or little-known material, relating the faith, determination, and inventivene...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Whiteley, Marilyn Färdig (Editor ), Muir, Elizabeth Gillan, 1934- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 1995.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.