Evangelical Christian women : war stories in the gender battles / Julie Ingersoll.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ingersoll, Julie.

Series:

Qualitative studies in religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in fundamentalist churches--History--20th century.

Women in fundamentalist churches.

Sex role--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--20th century.

Sex role.

Protestant women--United States--History--20th century.

Protestant women.

Evangelicalism--United States--History--20th century.

Evangelicalism.

History.

Sex role--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines.

Sex role--Religious aspects--Christianity.

United States.

Physical Description:

x, 181 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2003]

Summary:

Evangelical Christian Women draws on two years of ethnographic research nationwide to shed new light on the gender conflict faced by women in evangelical Christianity. It looks where other studies do not -- at women who, while remaining entrenched in and committed to evangelical Christianity, are also resisting accepted gender roles. In the face of a growing number of scholarly studies of conservative religious women that argue that submission is somehow "really" empowerment, this book seeks to get at the other side of the story; to document and explore the experiences of the women caught in the middle of the conservative Christian culture war over gender.

Contents:

Christians for biblical equality and the fight for middle ground

Institutional conflict and the new orthodoxy at Southern Seminary

Conflict in the lives of individual women

Theoretical issues

The power of subtle arrangements and little things

What do we now know about conservative Protestant women.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-177) and index.

ISBN:

0814737692

0814737706

OCLC:

52720756