Women and twentieth-century Protestantism / edited by Margaret Lamberts Bendroth and Virginia Lieson Brereton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bendroth, Margaret Lamberts, 1954-

Brereton, Virginia Lieson.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Protestant women--History--20th century.

Protestant women.

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 350 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2002]

Summary:

Probes the meaning and impact of social change on women in the church.

Contents:

Saints but not subordinates: the Women's Missionary Union of the Southern Baptist Convention / Paul Harvey

"Your daughters shall prophesy" : a history of women in ministry in the Latino Pentecostal movement in the United States / Gastón Espinosa

Expanding feminism's field and focus: activism in the national council of churches in the 1960s and 1970s / Susan M. Hartmann

The role of young people's societies in the training of Christian womanhood (and manhood), 1880-1910 / Christopher Coble

Transnational women's activism: the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Japan and the United States / Rumi Yasutake

Beyond Dr. Dobson: women, girls, and Focus on the Family / Colleen McDannell

Unbinding their souls: Chinese Protestant women in twentieth-century America / Timothy Tseng

Writing our way into history: gender, race, and the creation of Black denominational life / Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp

Female suffering and religious devotion in American Pentecostalism / R. Marie Griffith

"Let Christian women set the example in their own gifts": the "business" of Protestant women's organizations / Susan M. Yohn

Healing hands, healthy bodies: Protestant women and faith healing in Canada and the United States, 1880-1930 / James W. Opp

The women that publish the tidings: the International Association of Women Ministers / Mark Chaves

Losing their religion: women, the state, and the ascension of secular discourse, 1890-1930 / Maureen Fitzgerald

Feminism revisited: Protestantism and gender at the turn of the century / Ann Taves.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0252026918

0252069986

OCLC:

46678129