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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... example, Elleanor Knight published her Narrative of the Christian Experience, Life and Adventures, Trials and Labours of Elleanor Knight, and in 1841 Rebecca Miller wrote a scriptural defense of female evangelism.12 Even though these ...
... example, Elleanor Knight published her Narrative of the Christian Experience, Life and Adventures, Trials and Labours of Elleanor Knight, and in 1841 Rebecca Miller wrote a scriptural defense of female evangelism.12 Even though these ...
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... example, while reading the diary of William Smyth Babcock, a Freewill Baptist minister, I found a brief sketch of Nancy Mitchell, “a celebrated Preacher in this & the neighbouring towns; whose character for truth is very doubtful.”14 ...
... example, while reading the diary of William Smyth Babcock, a Freewill Baptist minister, I found a brief sketch of Nancy Mitchell, “a celebrated Preacher in this & the neighbouring towns; whose character for truth is very doubtful.”14 ...
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... example, most Americans understood gender according to a “onesex” model: there was only one sex, the male sex, and women were simply incomplete men. During the early nineteenth century, however, most Americans began to argue that women ...
... example, most Americans understood gender according to a “onesex” model: there was only one sex, the male sex, and women were simply incomplete men. During the early nineteenth century, however, most Americans began to argue that women ...
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... examples of Quaker women ministers, they shied away from the Quakers' social and political radicalism, particularly ... example, I argue that the Freewill Baptists, Methodists, African Methodists, Christian Connection, and Millerites ...
... examples of Quaker women ministers, they shied away from the Quakers' social and political radicalism, particularly ... example, I argue that the Freewill Baptists, Methodists, African Methodists, Christian Connection, and Millerites ...
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... example, William Byrd, a southern planter, overheard an argument between his wife and his sisterinlaw, who could not agree about the Bible's infallibility.3 Defining the boundaries of public and private is uniquely difficult in the case ...
... example, William Byrd, a southern planter, overheard an argument between his wife and his sisterinlaw, who could not agree about the Bible's infallibility.3 Defining the boundaries of public and private is uniquely difficult in the case ...
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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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