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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... prophets and apostles, meant trusting in “things hoped for” and “things not seen.” This book is about Harriet Livermore and all of the other female evangelists, both white and black, who tried to forge a tradition of female religious ...
... prophets and apostles, meant trusting in “things hoped for” and “things not seen.” This book is about Harriet Livermore and all of the other female evangelists, both white and black, who tried to forge a tradition of female religious ...
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... Prophets, an earlyeighteenthcentury British sect that espoused truly radical beliefs: besides defending female preaching, they claimed to have the power to heal the sick and raise the dead. By linking the French Prophets to the more ...
... Prophets, an earlyeighteenthcentury British sect that espoused truly radical beliefs: besides defending female preaching, they claimed to have the power to heal the sick and raise the dead. By linking the French Prophets to the more ...
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... prophecy . . . in a greater or lesser measure.”64 Proclaiming their commitment to “gospel freedom,” the Separates allowed women as well as men to pray aloud during meetings. Because of the scarcity of historical evidence, it is ...
... prophecy . . . in a greater or lesser measure.”64 Proclaiming their commitment to “gospel freedom,” the Separates allowed women as well as men to pray aloud during meetings. Because of the scarcity of historical evidence, it is ...
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... prophets, they believed they had to lose their identities as women. It is sadly ironic that a biblical text that has been so inspirational to contemporary feminist theologians—“There is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in ...
... prophets, they believed they had to lose their identities as women. It is sadly ironic that a biblical text that has been so inspirational to contemporary feminist theologians—“There is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in ...
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... prophets who had communicated with God through dreams, visions, or voices.76 Throughout history, people who have been excluded from the formal structures of church governance—including the enslaved, the poor, the uneducated, and the ...
... prophets who had communicated with God through dreams, visions, or voices.76 Throughout history, people who have been excluded from the formal structures of church governance—including the enslaved, the poor, the uneducated, and the ...
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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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