God Speaks to Us, Too: Southern Baptist Women on Church, Home, and SocietyUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2014 M10 17 - 322 páginas Raised as a Southern Baptist in Rome, Georgia, Susan M. Shaw earned graduate degrees from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, was ordained a Southern Baptist minister, and prepared herself to lead a life of leadership and service among Southern Baptists. However, dramatic changes in both the makeup and the message of the Southern Baptist Convention during the 1980s and 1990s (a period known among Southern Baptists as "the Controversy") caused Shaw and many other Southern Baptists, especially women, to reconsider their allegiances. In God Speaks to Us, Too: Southern Baptist Women on Church, Home, and Society, Shaw presents her own experiences, as well as those of over 150 other current and former Southern Baptist women, in order to examine the role, identity, and culture of women in the largest Protestant denomination in the country. The Southern Baptist Convention was established in the United States in 1845 after a schism between Northern and Southern brethren over the question of slavery. Shaw sketches the history of the Southern Baptist faith from its formation, through its dramatic expansion following World War II, to the Controversy and its aftermath. The Controversy began as a successful attempt by fundamentalists within the denomination to pack the leadership and membership of the Southern Baptist Convention (the denomination's guiding body) with conservative and fundamentalist believers. Although no official strictures prohibit a Southern Baptist woman from occupying the primary leadership role within her congregation—or her own family—rhetoric emanating from the Southern Baptist Convention during the Controversy strongly discouraged such roles for its women, and church leadership remains overwhelmingly male as a result. Despite the vast difference between the denomination's radical beginnings and its current position among the most conservative American denominations, freedom of conscience is still prized. Shaw identifies "soul competency," or the notion of a free soul that is responsible for its own decisions, as the principle by which many Southern Baptist women reconcile their personal attitudes with conservative doctrine. These women are often perceived from without as submissive secondary citizens, but they are actually powerful actors within their families and churches. God Speaks to Us, Too reveals that Southern Baptist women understand themselves as agents of their own lives, even though they locate their faith within the framework of a highly patriarchal institution. Shaw presents these women through their own words, and concludes that they believe strongly in their ability to discern the voice of God for themselves. |
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... asked, walking the fine line between researcher and goading prodigal daughter. “Because women are more emotional creatures, and we're supposed to be protected. And God put that man here to protect us. We're the weaker sex; I believe ...
... asked her whether she thought things might change as more women moved into leadership positions in society. “If I were younger, I might believe that. I can see women in leadership positions in the church, maybe under a pastor, as ...
... asked her, “I take it you think it's okay to disagree with the pastor?” “Oh, yes,” she answered, “He knows it too. . . . And he knows that if he preaches something, and my little light goes off that that's not the way I see it, that I ...
... asked each participant what being Baptist means to her. There was a surprising consistency in their answers. Many mentioned issues such as Baptists' high view of scripture or their emphasis on missions. Some named specific elements ...
... asked his mother about her own churchgoing experiences, my now ninety-eight-year-old grandmother told me, “I'm a Baptist, teeth and toe.” My mother's family was not particularly religious, so she attended a Christian church on her own ...
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Southern Baptist Women and the Bible | 63 |
Southern Baptist Women Hospitality and Friendship | 87 |
The Dynamics of Race in the Lives of Southern Baptist Women | 116 |
Southern Baptist Women and Ministry | 138 |
Southern Baptist Women and the Family | 184 |
Southern Baptist Women and Feminism | 223 |
Southern Baptist Women and Soul Competency | 246 |
Cast of Characters | 269 |
Notes | 277 |
Index | 291 |
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