Strangers & Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845University of North Carolina Press, 1998 - 466 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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... authority . For example , the Reverend David Hall complained that a " troublesome woman " had rudely interrupted his sermon by singing hymns and falling into noisy " panting fits . " Even though he tried to ignore her , she was so ...
... authority . For example , the Reverend David Hall complained that a " troublesome woman " had rudely interrupted his sermon by singing hymns and falling into noisy " panting fits . " Even though he tried to ignore her , she was so ...
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... authority over the man really meant that the church should not usurp authority over Christ . Perhaps his reasoning would have been more persuasive a decade earlier , but in 1754 an ecclesiastical council ex- pressed outrage at his ...
... authority over the man really meant that the church should not usurp authority over Christ . Perhaps his reasoning would have been more persuasive a decade earlier , but in 1754 an ecclesiastical council ex- pressed outrage at his ...
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... authority in their traditional domestic roles as mothers and sisters . While Sisters in Christ were young or middle - aged women who had helped to foster the faith of new believers , Mothers in Israel tended to be older women who had ...
... authority in their traditional domestic roles as mothers and sisters . While Sisters in Christ were young or middle - aged women who had helped to foster the faith of new believers , Mothers in Israel tended to be older women who had ...
Contenido
Introduction Recovering the History of Female Preaching in America | 1 |
PART TWO SISTERS IN CHRIST MOTHERS IN ISRAEL | 115 |
Conversion and the Call to Preach | 162 |
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