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Author Brekus, Catherine A.

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

Imprint Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, c1998.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  251.008209 B749s    ---  Available
Description x, 466 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Series Gender & American culture
Note Papers presented at several seminars and conferences.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references P. [425]-452) and index.
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 prophesy : female preaching in the Millerite movement -- Write the vision -- Female preachers and exhorters in America, 1740-1845.
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.
United States -- Church history -- 18th century.
United States -- Church history -- 19th century.
ISBN 0807847453 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807824410 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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