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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... sinners.1 More than a thousand people were waiting in the Hall of Representatives when Livermore entered the room at eleven o'clock. Straining to catch a glimpse of her as she walked through the crowd, they saw a striking ...
... sinners.1 More than a thousand people were waiting in the Hall of Representatives when Livermore entered the room at eleven o'clock. Straining to catch a glimpse of her as she walked through the crowd, they saw a striking ...
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... sinners” their moral failings. As the church council complained, she not only “talk[ed] against others” wherever she went, but singled out individuals by name for their “vileness and wickedness.” Even more galling, she assailed her ...
... sinners” their moral failings. As the church council complained, she not only “talk[ed] against others” wherever she went, but singled out individuals by name for their “vileness and wickedness.” Even more galling, she assailed her ...
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... Sinners, stand up and look where you are hastning, least you drink of the hand of the Lord, the Dregs of the Cup of his Fury.”23 In part, clergymen such as Tennent seem to have been concerned about the growing commercialization of the ...
... Sinners, stand up and look where you are hastning, least you drink of the hand of the Lord, the Dregs of the Cup of his Fury.”23 In part, clergymen such as Tennent seem to have been concerned about the growing commercialization of the ...
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... sinners.43 Influenced by these images of “feminine” weakness and pollution, women tended to describe their battles with Satan in particularly vivid and immediate language. Even though both male and female converts mentioned being ...
... sinners.43 Influenced by these images of “feminine” weakness and pollution, women tended to describe their battles with Satan in particularly vivid and immediate language. Even though both male and female converts mentioned being ...
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... sinner and God. Instead of confining their piety to the privacy of their “closets,” converts flaunted it in the churches and streets. As Solomon Prentice explained, people could experience the new birth anywhere: “at Home in their own ...
... sinner and God. Instead of confining their piety to the privacy of their “closets,” converts flaunted it in the churches and streets. As Solomon Prentice explained, people could experience the new birth anywhere: “at Home in their own ...
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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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