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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... tried to set herself apart from the ordi- nary breed of “ carnal " women who had been ordered to keep silence in the churches . Because she had transcended the sexual corruption of her body , she was no longer a woman , but a perfect ...
... tried to set herself apart from the ordi- nary breed of “ carnal " women who had been ordered to keep silence in the churches . Because she had transcended the sexual corruption of her body , she was no longer a woman , but a perfect ...
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... tried to resist the incursions of capitalism . Although they were far less radical than the Shakers , who abolished private property in favor of communism , they still tried to shield their mem- bers from the worst excesses of the ...
... tried to resist the incursions of capitalism . Although they were far less radical than the Shakers , who abolished private property in favor of communism , they still tried to shield their mem- bers from the worst excesses of the ...
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... tried to foster a tradition of women's ministry by asking seminaries to open their doors to women as well as men , but no one ever proposed such a revolutionary experiment . In 1847 Antoinette Brown Blackwell convinced Charles Finney to ...
... tried to foster a tradition of women's ministry by asking seminaries to open their doors to women as well as men , but no one ever proposed such a revolutionary experiment . In 1847 Antoinette Brown Blackwell convinced Charles Finney to ...
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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