Strangers & Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845

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Univ of North Carolina Press, 1998 - 466 páginas
Catherine Brekus tells the story of several generations of women - both white and African American - who struggled to forge an enduring tradition of female religious leadership in colonial and antebellum America. Piecing together evidence from a wide rang

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Introduction Recovering the History of Female Preaching in America
1
PART ONE THERE IS NEITHER MALE NOR FEMALE
21
Female Religious Leadership
80
PART TWO SISTERS IN CHRIST MOTHERS IN ISRAEL
115
Conversion and the Call to Preach
162
Evangelical Women in the Pulpit
194
Female Peddlers of the Word
232
The Battle over Female Preaching
267
Epilogue Write the Vision
336
Appendix Female Preachers and Exhorters in America 17401845
343
Bibliography
425
Acknowledgments
453
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CATHERINE A. BREKUS is associate professor of the history of Christianity at the University of Chicago Divinity School and author of Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845 (from the University of North Carolina Press).

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