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Strangers & pilgrims : female preaching in America, 1740-1845
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"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 ant...
"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.
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- Creator
- Catherine A. Brekus
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- Language
- English
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- Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 1998
- ©1998
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- x, 466 pages
- ISBNs
- 0807847453, 0807866547, 9780807824412, 9798890870599, 9780807866542, 0807824410, 9780807847459
- OCLC
- ocm38311797, ocm45843967
- Papers presented at several seminars and conferences.
- Includes bibliographical references pages 425-452) and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Preaching -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
- Preaching -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Sermons, American -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- Women in Christianity -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
- United States -- Church history -- 18th century.
- Women in Christianity -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- United States -- Church history -- 19th century.
- Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
- Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.