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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... claimed that the world was so filled with evil that God would soon destroy it in a fury of fire and blood. There would be no thousandyear reign of peace before the second coming of Christ, no heaven on earth, but only a conflagration of ...
... claimed that the world was so filled with evil that God would soon destroy it in a fury of fire and blood. There would be no thousandyear reign of peace before the second coming of Christ, no heaven on earth, but only a conflagration of ...
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... claimed that women as well as men had the right to organize home mission societies and distribute religious tracts. Taking this logic even further, several dissenting groups claimed that women also could vote on church business and ...
... claimed that women as well as men had the right to organize home mission societies and distribute religious tracts. Taking this logic even further, several dissenting groups claimed that women also could vote on church business and ...
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... claimed that women were too delicate and modest to allow men to stare at them in public, especially in the “masculine” space of the pulpit, they were shocked by women such as Harriet Livermore. Belittling them as fallen women, they ...
... claimed that women were too delicate and modest to allow men to stare at them in public, especially in the “masculine” space of the pulpit, they were shocked by women such as Harriet Livermore. Belittling them as fallen women, they ...
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... wandered “from house to house, and very frequently to other towns, under a notion of doing Christ's work and delivering his messages.” “Caught up” in God, she claimed that she was no longer an ordinary goodwife (as Puritan wives.
... wandered “from house to house, and very frequently to other towns, under a notion of doing Christ's work and delivering his messages.” “Caught up” in God, she claimed that she was no longer an ordinary goodwife (as Puritan wives.
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... claimed to have received direct revelations from God. Because of her caustic tongue, her heavenly “revelations,” and her disdain for the clergy, Kingsley posed a threat to male authority in both the church and the family. It would be ...
... claimed to have received direct revelations from God. Because of her caustic tongue, her heavenly “revelations,” and her disdain for the clergy, Kingsley posed a threat to male authority in both the church and the family. It would be ...
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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 |
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