Sisters and Saints: Women and American ReligionOxford University Press, 21 Kas 2007 - 144 sayfa "Women are the backbone of the church," says an old African-American aphorism. Since the 1660s, women have made up the majority of members in almost all American religious groups. They have provided essential financial and social support and worked tirelessly in the background of church-based activities. Throughout American history, women have raised money for churches and synagogues, embroidered altar cloths, taught Sunday school, prepared parish meals, and sung in the choir. They have educated their children in their beliefs and taken them to their places of worship. Yet it is primarily men who have historically occupied the high rungs of church hierarchy and made the important decisions affecting their congregations. Ann Braude examines the central role of women in American religious history, focusing on their efforts to achieve greater recognition and equal rights, their recent admission to religious leadership, and the emergence of feminist theology in the late 20th century. Colonist Margaret Winthrop, African-American preacher Jarena Lee, Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, and Zionist leader Henrietta Szold are among the women discussed in these pages who have made major contributions to the spiritual and material growth of religious organizations in America. |
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... men who play the leading roles in religious organizations. As a result, most people assume that women have had little importance in U.S. religious history. Few groups had women as leaders before the 1970s, and the largest ones still do ...
... men who play the leading roles in religious organizations. As a result, most people assume that women have had little importance in U.S. religious history. Few groups had women as leaders before the 1970s, and the largest ones still do ...
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... men to administer. There would be no clergy, no seminaries to train them, no theology to teach them, no denominations to ordain them, and no ceremonies for them to lead unless women found it worth their while to support religious ...
... men to administer. There would be no clergy, no seminaries to train them, no theology to teach them, no denominations to ordain them, and no ceremonies for them to lead unless women found it worth their while to support religious ...
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... men's roles in society. Legal codes, educational policies, family structures, and personal relationships have all reflected beliefs about how God wanted society to be ordered. For the first century and a half after the founding of the ...
... men's roles in society. Legal codes, educational policies, family structures, and personal relationships have all reflected beliefs about how God wanted society to be ordered. For the first century and a half after the founding of the ...
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... men. “He for God only, she for God in him,” wrote the Puritan poet John Milton. The Christian tradition in their view affirmed the subordination of wives to husbands. “Wives be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband ...
... men. “He for God only, she for God in him,” wrote the Puritan poet John Milton. The Christian tradition in their view affirmed the subordination of wives to husbands. “Wives be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband ...
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... men in New England. From the early days of the commonwealth, the membership records of New England churches show that more women than men could report the experience of God's redeeming grace. This created an unprecedented situation that ...
... men in New England. From the early days of the commonwealth, the membership records of New England churches show that more women than men could report the experience of God's redeeming grace. This created an unprecedented situation that ...
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When the Spirit Moves Women | 28 |
Mothers and Daughters Maintain the Home | 48 |
Organized Womanhood | 69 |
Old Faiths in New Times | 94 |
CHRONOLOGY | 121 |
FURTHER READING | 124 |
INDEX | 128 |
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