Gender and pentecostal revivalism : making a female ministry in the early twentieth century / Leah Payne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Payne, Leah, author.

Series:

CHARIS: Christianity and renewal--interdisciplinary studies

CHARIS : Christianity and renewal--interdisciplinary studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women clergy--United States--History--20th century.

Women clergy.

Women evangelists--United States--History--20th century.

Women evangelists.

McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944.

McPherson, Aimee Semple.

Woodworth-Etter, Maria Beulah, 1844-1924.

Woodworth-Etter, Maria Beulah.

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

Pentecostalism.

History.

United States--Church history--20th century.

United States.

Church history.

Genre:

Church history.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 223 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Summary:

Gender and Pentecostal Revivalism provides an interdisciplinary, theoretically engaged answer to an enduring question for charismatic Christianities: how do women lead churches? By examining the ministries of two famous (and infamous) Pentecostal revivalists, Maria Woodworth-Etter and Aimee Semple McPherson, this study shows that a woman's success in the ministry was not simply about access to ordination. It was about establishing legitimacy as a woman and authority as a pastor-no small task in the early twentieth century. Woodworth-Etter and McPherson succeeded by drawing from popular feminine ideals and Pentecostal biblical models of womanhood to unite their two seemingly contradictory identities of woman and minister during the ritualized act of revivalist preaching. In the process, the women created biblical theologies that are alive and well in Pentecostal-charismatic circles today. Their negotiations of gender, race, class, and religious leadership continue to inspire generations of imitators, and their stories illuminate how female ministers were made in early twentieth-century America. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 "Truly Manly": The Ideal American Minister 19

2 "Walking Bibles": Narrating Female Pentecostal Ministry 39

3 "Pants Don't Make Preachers": The Image of a Female Pentecostal Minister 63

4 "A Glorious Symbol": Building a Female Pentecostal Worship Space 81

5 "Thunder" and "Sweetness": Authority and Gender in Pentecostal Performance 95

6 "A Regular Jezebel": Female Ministry, Pentecostal Ministry on Trial 123.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137494696

1137494697

OCLC:

889523550