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Seventh-Day Adventism in crisis : gender and sectarian change in an emerging religion / Laura L. Vance.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vance, Laura L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Seventh-Day Adventists--History.
- Seventh-Day Adventists.
- History.
- Adventists--History.
- Adventists.
- Sabbatarians--History.
- Sabbatarians.
- Women clergy.
- Ordination of women.
- Sex role--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Sex role.
- Physical Description:
- x, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1999]
- Summary:
- How can a movement founded on the prophecies and visions of one woman, and reliant in its early stages on the pastoral leadership, teaching, and proselytizing of many others, come to define women's roles in ways that exclude them from active public participation and leadership in the church?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-255) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0252024346
- 0252067444
- OCLC:
- 39147777
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