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Strangers & pilgrims : female preaching in America, 1740-1845 /
"Catherine Brekus tells the story of several generations of women - both white and African American - who struggled to forge an enduring tradition of female religious leadership in colonial and antebellum America. Piecing together evidence from a wide range of sources, including religious magaz...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill, NC :
University of North Carolina Press,
©1998.
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| Series: | Gender & American culture.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Recovering the history of female preaching in America
- There is neither male nor female
- Caught up in God: female evangelism in the eighteenth-century revivals
- Women in the wilderness: female religious leadership in the age of revolution
- Sisters in Christ, mothers in Israel
- Female laborers in the harvest: female preaching in the early nineteenth century
- The last shall be first: conversion and the call to preach
- Lift up thy voice like a trumpet: evangelical women in the pulpit
- God and mammon: female peddlers of the word
- Let your women keep silence
- Suffer not a woman to teach: the battle over female preaching
- Your sons and daughters shall prohesy: female preaching in the Millerite movement
- Write the vision
- Female preachers and exhorters in America, 1740-1845.