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Strangers & pilgrims : female preaching in America, 1740-1845

"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 range of sources, including religious magazines and newspapers, clergymen's autobiographies, church records, and female preachers' own memoirs and letters, she examines the lives of more than a hundred female preachers who crisscrossed the country between 1740 and 1845." "Focusing on the lives of these forgotten women, Brekus explores the changing meaning of femininity after the American Revolution, the growth of religious freedom, the conservatism of evangelical revivals, the upheaval wrought by the market revolution, the popularity of apocalyptic beliefs, and the fragility of historical memory."--Jacket
eBook, English, ©1998
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, ©1998
Conference papers and proceedings
1 online resource (x, 466 pages)
9780807866542, 9780807824412, 9780807847459, 0807866547, 0807824410, 0807847453
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Recovering the history of female preaching in America
There is neither male nor female
Caught up in God: female evangelism in the eighteenth-century revivals
Women in the wilderness: female religious leadership in the age of revolution
Sisters in Christ, mothers in Israel
Female laborers in the harvest: female preaching in the early nineteenth century
The last shall be first: conversion and the call to preach
Lift up thy voice like a trumpet: evangelical women in the pulpit
God and mammon: female peddlers of the word
Let your women keep silence
Suffer not a woman to teach: the battle over female preaching
Your sons and daughters shall prohesy: female preaching in the Millerite movement
Write the vision
Female preachers and exhorters in America, 1740-1845. Contents
Recovering the History of Female Preaching in America
1 Female Evangelism in the Eighteenth- Century Revivals
2 Female Religious Leadership in the Age of Revolution
3 Female Preaching in the Early Nineteenth Century
4 Conversion and the Call to Preach
5 Evangelical Women in the Pulpit
6 Female Peddlers of the Word
7 The Battle over Female Preaching
8 Female Preaching in the Millerite Movement
Write the Vision
Female Preachers and Exhorters in America, 1740©ѳ1845
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Papers presented at several seminars and conferences
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