Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845Univ of North Carolina Press, 2000 M11 9 - 480 páginas Margaret Meuse Clay, who barely escaped a public whipping in the 1760s for preaching without a license; "Old Elizabeth," an ex-slave who courageously traveled to the South to preach against slavery in the early nineteenth century; Harriet Livermore, who spoke in front of Congress four times between 1827 and 1844--these are just a few of the extraordinary women profiled in this, the first comprehensive history of female preaching in early America. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Catherine Brekus examines the lives of more than a hundred female preachers--both white and African American--who crisscrossed the country between 1740 and 1845. Outspoken, visionary, and sometimes contentious, these women stepped into the pulpit long before twentieth-century battles over female ordination began. They were charismatic, popular preachers, who spoke to hundreds and even thousands of people at camp and revival meetings, and yet with but a few notable exceptions--such as Sojourner Truth--these women have essentially vanished from our history. Recovering their stories, Brekus shows, forces us to rethink many of our common assumptions about eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American culture. |
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... biblical heroes and heroines who had lived by faith, they wondered if they would always be exiles who “sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country.” When Harriet Livermore pored over the Epistle to the Hebrews, she ...
... biblical heroes and heroines who had lived by faith, they wondered if they would always be exiles who “sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country.” When Harriet Livermore pored over the Epistle to the Hebrews, she ...
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... biblical revelation. These women were “biblical” rather than secular feminists, and they based their claims to female equality on the grounds of scriptural revelation, not natural rights. Even though they brought hundreds of new ...
... biblical revelation. These women were “biblical” rather than secular feminists, and they based their claims to female equality on the grounds of scriptural revelation, not natural rights. Even though they brought hundreds of new ...
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... biblical feminism. Female preachers were virtually written out of their churches' histories in the midnineteenth century—a silence that has been perpetuated ever since. During the eighteenth century, many dissenting New Light, Separate ...
... biblical feminism. Female preachers were virtually written out of their churches' histories in the midnineteenth century—a silence that has been perpetuated ever since. During the eighteenth century, many dissenting New Light, Separate ...
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... biblical law. Armed with references from 2 Timothy 2:13–14, he declared that a woman was not permitted to speak “by way of teaching, whether in expounding or applying Scripture. For this the Apostle accounteth an act of authority which ...
... biblical law. Armed with references from 2 Timothy 2:13–14, he declared that a woman was not permitted to speak “by way of teaching, whether in expounding or applying Scripture. For this the Apostle accounteth an act of authority which ...
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... biblical texts, they were not “preachers” in the Anglican or Puritan sense of the word, but according to their fellow Quakers, their speech was even more authoritative. As “witnesses” who had been directly inspired by God, their ...
... biblical texts, they were not “preachers” in the Anglican or Puritan sense of the word, but according to their fellow Quakers, their speech was even more authoritative. As “witnesses” who had been directly inspired by God, their ...
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Female Religious Leadership in the | |
PART TWO SISTERS IN CHRIST MOTHERS IN ISRAEL | |
Conversion and the Call to Preach | |
Evangelical Women in | |
Female Peddlers of the Word | |
PART THREE LET YOUR WOMEN KEEP SILENCE | |
Female Preaching in | |
Epilogue Write the Vision | |
Notes | |
Acknowledgments | |
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Strangers & Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845 Catherine A. Brekus Vista previa limitada - 1998 |
Strangers & Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845 Catherine A. Brekus Vista de fragmentos - 1998 |
Strangers & Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845 Catherine A. Brekus Sin vista previa disponible - 1998 |
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