Title Strangers & pilgrims : female preaching in America, 1740-1845 / Catherine A. Brekus

Published Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (x, 466 pages) Series Gender and American culture Gender & American culture. Contents 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 Summary "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 Notes Papers presented at several seminars and conferences Bibliography Includes bibliographical references pages 425-452) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject 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 Women in Christianity -- United States -- History -- 19th century Preaching -- United States -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses Preaching -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses Women in Christianity -- United States -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses Women in Christianity -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses RELIGION -- Christian Ministry -- Preaching. Preaching Sermons, American -- Women authors Women in Christianity Predigerin Verkondiging. Vrouwen. Geschichte 1740-1845. SUBJECT United States -- Church history -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93009175 United States -- Church history -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139928 United States -- Church history -- 18th century -- Congresses United States -- Church history -- 19th century -- Congresses Subject United States USA Verenigde Staten. Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings Church history Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 98011394 ISBN 0807866547 9780807866542 9780807824412 0807824410 9780807847459 0807847453

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