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

Author/creator Brekus, Catherine A.
Format Book
Publication InfoChapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, ©1998.
Descriptionx, 466 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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.
Women in Christianity--United States. --History. --19th century.
United States--Church history. --18th century.
United States--Church history. --19th century.

Variant title Strangers and pilgrims
SeriesGender and American culture
Gender & American culture. ^A228874
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.
Local noteLittle-309415--305131040436U
Local noteLittle-317802--305131029420U
General notePapers presented at several seminars and conferences.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references P. [425]-452) and index.
LCCN 98011394
ISBN0807824410 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0807847453 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks BV4208.U6 B74 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold