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From Preachers to Suffragists

Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Release Date : 2003-01-01
ISBN 13: 9780664226152
Page : 260 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (59 users)

Download PDF or read online From Preachers to Suffragists Book by Beverly Ann Zink-Sawyer and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Examines the lives and writings of three nineteenth-century clergywomen including Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Olympia Brown, and Anna Howard Shaw, who viewed the suffrage movement as an extension of their ministries, citing their pivotal contributions to women's rights. Original.

Treacherous Texts

by Mary Chapman

Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2011
ISBN 13: 0813549590
Page : 353 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (495 users)

Download PDF or read online Treacherous Texts Book by Mary Chapman and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : "Although the suffrage campaign is often associated in popular memory with oratory, this anthology affirms that suffragists recognized early on that literature could also exert a power to move readers to imagine new roles for women in the public sphere. Beginning with sentimental fiction and polemic, progressing through modernist and middlebrow experiment, and concluding with post-ratification memoirs and tributes, this anthology showcases lost and neglected fiction, poetry, drama, literary journalism, and autobiography; it also samples innovative print cultural forms devised for the campaign, such as valentines, banners, and cartoons. Featured writers include canonical figures such as Stowe, Fern, Alcott, Gilman, Djuna Barnes, Marianne Moore, Millay, Sui Sin Far, and Gertrude Stein, as well as writers popular in their day but, until now, lost to ours."--Publisher.

Claiming the Call to Preach

by Donna Giver-Johnston

Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-05-25
ISBN 13: 0197576397
Page : 321 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (763 users)

Download PDF or read online Claiming the Call to Preach Book by Donna Giver-Johnston and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Few debates divide the contemporary church more than the issue of call. The question of who can be called to preach segregates denominations, divides people within churches, and undermines its public witness. Yet, curiously little homiletic attention has been paid to the issue of call. Because the practice of call has not been subjected to critical inquiry, it has taken on power. Power lies hidden in the crevices of the question of who can be called to preach; power lies in the institutional narrative and approved stories of call; power lies in the discordant debates, equally in the stifling silence. Claiming the Call to Preach critically examines the dominant historical narrative that overtly or covertly has exercised its power to keep women from preaching. Donna Giver-Johnston here recovers the histories of four notable female preaching pioneers who affected change in the religious landscape of nineteenth-century America: Jarena Lee, Frances Willard, Louisa Woosley, and Florence Spearing Randolph. These women, diverse in religion, race, class, and culture each told their story of call in distinctive ways that articulated strong and effective rhetorical arguments for ecclesiastical sanction to give them a place in the pulpit. Recovering their rhetorical witness helps to fill in the gaps in the history of preaching in America, contribute to research and pedagogies in the field of homiletics, and provide today's women--and all candidates for ministry--with different theological models and narrative strategies by which to effectively interpret and claim their calls to preach. These women who spoke truth to power help us reimagine a church today that no longer questions the legitimacy of one's call to preach, but endorses previously silenced voices, and is therefore strengthened by women's voices from the pulpit.

For Life Abundant

by Dorothy C. Bass

Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date : 2008-04-29
ISBN 13: 0802837441
Page : 381 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (374 users)

Download PDF or read online For Life Abundant Book by Dorothy C. Bass and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : "Bass and Dykstra have written extensively and collaboratively on Christian Practices, arguing that the what Christians have done faithfully over time constitutes a life-giving way of life, and that this living of Christianity is more primary to what it means to be Christian than doctrinal confession, that our confessions spring from faithful living rather than the other way around. This book contains numerous essays that take up the question of Christian Practices and ministry--the preparation of ministers, theological education, etc. in a post-Enlightenment understanding of the relationship of practice and head knowledge. Because the book is the result of a community conversation, it doesn't have a clear thesis, but it models its conviction that reflection on theology arises from community conversation around our life in discipleship together. An extremely helpful beginning to a conversation about ministry, practices of faith, clergy preparation, etc., as the time has come to integrate the kind of learning that comes in the classroom with the kind that only comes from living the faith with others"--Amazon.com.

Texas Women

by Elizabeth Hayes Turner

Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2015
ISBN 13: 0820337447
Page : 545 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (374 users)

Download PDF or read online Texas Women Book by Elizabeth Hayes Turner and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : "This is a collection of biographies and composite essays of Texas women, contextualized over the course of history to include subjects that reflect the enormous racial, class, and religious diversity of the state. Offering insights into the complex ways that Texas' position on the margins of the United States has shaped a particular kind of gendered experience there, the volume also demonstrates how the larger questions in United States women's history are answered or reconceived in the state. Beginning with Juliana Barr's essay, which asserts that 'women marked the lines of dominion among Spanish and Indian nations in Texas' and explodes the myth of Spanish domination in colonial Texas, the essays examine the ways that women were able to use their borderland status to stretch the boundaries of their own lives. Eric Walther demonstrates that the constant changing of governments in Texas (Spanish, Mexican, Texan, and U.S.) gave slaves the opportunities to resist their oppression because of the differences in the laws of slavery under Spanish or English or American law. Gabriela Gonzalez examines the activism of Jovita Idar on behalf of civil rights for Mexicans and Mexican Americans on both sides of the border. Renee Laegreid argues that female rodeo contestants employed a "unique regional interplay of masculine and feminine behaviors" to shape their identities as cowgirls"--

The Preacher's Wife

by Kate Bowler

Publisher : Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2019-10
ISBN 13: 0691179611
Page : 364 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (796 users)

Download PDF or read online The Preacher's Wife Book by Kate Bowler and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Although most evangelical traditions bar women from ordained ministry, many women have carved out unofficial positions of power in their husbands' spiritual empires or their own ministries. The biggest stars write bestselling books, grab high ratings on Christian television, and even preach. Bowler offers a sympathetic and revealing portrait of megachurch women celebrities, showing how they must balance the demands of celebrity culture and conservative, male-dominated faiths. And black celebrity preachers' wives carry a special burden of respectability. A compelling account of women's search for spiritual authority in the age of celebrity. -- adapted from jacket

Anna Howard Shaw

by Trisha Franzen

Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2014-03-15
ISBN 13: 0252095413
Page : 304 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (954 users)

Download PDF or read online Anna Howard Shaw Book by Trisha Franzen and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : With this first scholarly biography of Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919), Trisha Franzen sheds new light on an important woman suffrage leader who has too often been overlooked and misunderstood. An immigrant from a poor family, Shaw grew up in an economic reality that encouraged the adoption of non-traditional gender roles. Challenging traditional gender boundaries throughout her life, she put herself through college, worked as an ordained minister and a doctor, and built a tightly-knit family with her secretary and longtime companion Lucy E. Anthony. Drawing on unprecedented research, Franzen shows how these circumstances and choices both impacted Shaw's role in the woman suffrage movement and set her apart from her native-born, middle- and upper-class colleagues. Franzen also rehabilitates Shaw's years as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, arguing that Shaw's much-belittled tenure actually marked a renaissance of both NAWSA and the suffrage movement as a whole. Anna Howard Shaw: The Work of Woman Suffrage presents a clear and compelling portrait of a woman whose significance has too long been misinterpreted and misunderstood.

Tempest-Tossed

by Susan Campbell

Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Release Date : 2014-04-03
ISBN 13: 0819573884
Page : 244 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (738 users)

Download PDF or read online Tempest-Tossed Book by Susan Campbell and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Tempest-Tossed is the first full biography of the passionate, fascinating youngest daughter of the “Fabulous Beecher” family—one of America’s most high-powered families of the nineteenth century. Older sister Harriet Beecher Stowe was the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Brother Henry Ward Beecher was one of America’s most influential ministers, and sister Catherine Beecher wrote pivotal works on women’s rights and educational reform. And then there was Isabella Beecher Hooker—“a curiously modern nineteenth-century figure.” She was a leader in the suffrage movement, and a mover and shaker in Hartford’s storied Nook Farm neighborhood and salon. But there is more to the story—to Isabella’s character—than that. Isabella was an ardent Spiritualist. In daily life, she could be off-putting, perplexing, tenacious, charming. Many found her daunting to get to know and stay on comfortable terms with. Her “wild streak” was especially unfavorable in the eyes of Hartford society at the time, which valued restraint and duty. In her latest book, Susan Campbell brings her own unique blend of empathy and unbridled humor to the story of Harriet’s younger half-sister. Tempest Tossed reveals Isabella’s evolution from orthodox Calvinist daughter, wife, and mother, to one of the most influential players in the movement for women’s suffrage, where this unforgettable woman finally gets her proper due.

The New Interpreter's Handbook of Preaching

Publisher : Abingdon Press
Release Date : 2010-11-01
ISBN 13: 1426735707
Page : pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (357 users)

Download PDF or read online The New Interpreter's Handbook of Preaching Book by and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : The New Interpreter’s Handbook of Preaching is a major reference tool for preaching, with articles on every facet of Christian sermon preparation and delivery. This resource is both scholarly and practical. It focuses on the most distinctive feature and greatest strength of homiletics as a discipline: It is rooted in interdisciplinary scholarship and it develops theory geared to practice. Its theory arises out of the study of both excellent preaching past and present and actual sermon preparation and composition. When theory and practice critique each other, it is possible to produce guidelines that assist greater excellence and economy in preaching the gospel. Excellence in standards is an area in which homiletics needs to grow, and this project will be both a means to encourage and develop it. A guiding question throughout will be, Will it preach? The answers will be offered in the sense that “here is something that works well,” rather than “here is something to try.” Preachers will turn to this resource with the expectation that they will find scholarly treatment of topics, brief bibliographies of relevant key books and articles, along with practical methodological suggestions for preachers to employ. The contributors are homileticians, preachers, and writers in various disciplines who are committed to the pulpit through practice.

Her Story

by Barbara J. MacHaffie

Publisher : Fortress Press
Release Date : 2006
ISBN 13: 9781451404029
Page : 408 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (26 users)

Download PDF or read online Her Story Book by Barbara J. MacHaffie and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : The Bible has been written, translated, and interpreted for centuries by men in cultures that were patriarchal. In patriarchy, women are subordinated within the gradations of a hierarchical society. Material on women, therefore has often been misinterpreted or overlooked. In some instances, generic nouns and pronouns in the original languages have been translated into English as masculine words. A careful textual study must be made using all the available tools of biblical scholarship. An accurate understanding of the meaning of words must be sought. Also, readers must try to discern the intentions of the author and try to gain a knowledge of the historical and social background of the biblical material. The demands of God must be distinguished from the demands of a particular culture. The bible as a whole makes it clear that God's people are to bring justice and wholeness to all human beings. the injunctions that degrade women do not provide principles valid for every age of Christianity but instead reflect cultural situations in which men related to women through dominance. The standard for the Christian community today should be the glimmers of female dignity and leadership that shine through the pages of the Bible.

Prophets Of Protest

by Timothy Patrick McCarthy

Publisher : New Press, The
Release Date : 2006-05-22
ISBN 13: 1565848802
Page : 417 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (488 users)

Download PDF or read online Prophets Of Protest Book by Timothy Patrick McCarthy and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2006-05-22 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Presents a collection of original contributions on American abolitionism by African Americans, women, and other less-represented groups, drawing on a new body of research in African American studies, literature, and law.

By the Vision of Another World

by James D. Bratt

Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date : 2012
ISBN 13: 0802867103
Page : 222 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (671 users)

Download PDF or read online By the Vision of Another World Book by James D. Bratt and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : This book samples the rich variety of worship practices in American history to show how worship can be a fruitful subject for historians to study and how past cases can enrich our understanding of worship today. By the Vision of Another World gathers highly regarded historians who usually are not read together because of the widely different subjects on which they typically work. Yet their essays all fit together here as they address how worship, work, and worldview converge and reinforce each other no matter what particular place, era, denomination, or ethnic/racial group is under consideration. The variety of methodologies and voices will appeal to a breadth of critical interests, while the consistently high quality of historical narrative will keep readers engaged.

Shouting Above the Noisy Crowd: Biblical Wisdom and the Urgency of Preaching

by Charles L. Aaron

Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2021-11-09
ISBN 13: 1532602804
Page : 132 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (28 users)

Download PDF or read online Shouting Above the Noisy Crowd: Biblical Wisdom and the Urgency of Preaching Book by Charles L. Aaron and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : What could we accomplish if only we acted more wisely? Could we mitigate the effects of diseases; help the vulnerable feel safer; make progress on justice; cooperate on common problems? We don’t see enough wisdom, but neither did Woman Wisdom herself, who cried out in the streets wanting to gain attention. For every preacher who feels the urgency for more wisdom, this book has heard you. We know the urgency and we want to help. With contributions from: O. Wesley Allen Karoline M. Lewis John C. Holbert Ruthanna Hooke David Schnasa Jacobsen J. Dwayne Howell Margaret Wenig Luke Powery Eunjoo Kim

The Westminster Handbook to Women in American Religious History

by Susan Hill Lindley

Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Release Date : 2008-01-01
ISBN 13: 0664224547
Page : 280 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (245 users)

Download PDF or read online The Westminster Handbook to Women in American Religious History Book by Susan Hill Lindley and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : The Westminster Handbook to Women in American Religious History provides an affordable and accessible reference to over 750 outstanding individual women and women's organizations in American religious history.--From publisher description.

Parenting as Spiritual Practice and Source for Theology

by Claire Bischoff

Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2017-12-13
ISBN 13: 3319596535
Page : 308 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (965 users)

Download PDF or read online Parenting as Spiritual Practice and Source for Theology Book by Claire Bischoff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : This volume investigates how mothers can understand parenting as spiritual practice, and what this practice means for theological scholarship. An intergenerational and intercultural group of mother-scholars explores these questions that arise at the intersection of motherhood studies, religious practice, pastoral care, and theology through engaging and accessible essays. Essays include both narrative and theological elements, as authors draw on personal reflection, interviews, and/or sociological studies to write about the theological implications of parenting practice, rethink key concepts in theology, and contribute to a more robust account of parenting as spiritual practice from various theological perspectives. The volume both challenges oppressive, religious images of self-sacrificing motherhood and considers the spiritual dimensions of mothering that contribute to women’s empowerment and well-being. It also deepens practical and systematic theologies to include concern for the embodied and everyday challenges and joys of motherhood as it is experienced and practiced in diverse contexts of privilege and marginalization.

Shapers of the Great Debate on Women's Rights: A Biographical Dictionary

by Joyce D. Duncan

Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2008-10-30
ISBN 13: 0313082448
Page : 256 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (824 users)

Download PDF or read online Shapers of the Great Debate on Women's Rights: A Biographical Dictionary Book by Joyce D. Duncan and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : The three waves of feminism are explored through the lives of the women who made history in bringing women's issues to the forefront of American society. Many early feminists supported not only women's rights, but also rights of slaves and contributed to the passing of the Thirteenth Amendment, granting emancipation to slaves. They continued to work towards women's suffrage and were hopeful the Fourteenth Amendment would provide universal suffrage. However, women were not granted suffrage until the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment, nearly fifty years later. It was women's fundamental need for independence and an identity of their own, separate from that of men, which thrust the women's movement forward and continues to propel it today. Many notable women, such as Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Billie Jean King, Betty Friedan, Helen Gurley Brown, Jane Fonda, and Sandra Day O'Connor, are included in this history of the women's movement in America. The biographical entries cite works for further reading, and the volume closes with a bibliography. The Shapers of the Great Debate series takes a biographical approach to history, following the premise that people make history in the circumstances in which they find themselves. Each volume in this series examines the lives and experiences of the individuals involved in a particular debate through both major and minor biographies.

Women in the Story of Jesus

by Marion Ann Taylor

Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date : 2016-11-20
ISBN 13: 1467446246
Page : 288 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (462 users)

Download PDF or read online Women in the Story of Jesus Book by Marion Ann Taylor and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : This volume gathers the writings of thirty-one nineteenth-century women on the stories of women in the Gospels—Mary and Martha, Anna, the Samaritan woman at the well, Herodias and Salome, Mary Magdalene, and more. Retrieving and analyzing rarely read works by Christina Rossetti, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Wordsworth, and many others, Women in the Story of Jesus illuminates the biblical text, recovers a neglected chapter of reception history, and helps us understand and apply Scripture in our present context.