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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brekus, Catherine A.

Series:

Gender & American culture.

Gender and American culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Preaching--United States--History--18th century.

Preaching.

Preaching--United States--History--19th century.

Sermons, American--Women authors--History and criticism.

Sermons, American.

Women in Christianity--United States--History--18th century.

Women in Christianity.

Women in Christianity--United States--History--19th century.

United States--Church history--18th century.

United States.

United States--Church history--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 466 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Strangers and pilgrims

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Catherine Brekus tells the story of several generations of women - both white and African American - who struggled to forge an enduring tradition of female religious leadership in colonial and antebellum America. Piecing together evidence from a wide range of sources, including religious magazines and newspapers, clergymen's autobiographies, church records, and female preachers' own memoirs and letters, she examines the lives of more than a hundred female preachers who crisscrossed the country between 1740 and 1845." "Focusing on the lives of these forgotten women, Brekus explores the changing meaning of femininity after the American Revolution, the growth of religious freedom, the conservatism of evangelical revivals, the upheaval wrought by the market revolution, the popularity of apocalyptic beliefs, and the fragility of historical memory."--Jacket

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Recovering the History of Female Preaching in America

1 Female Evangelism in the Eighteenth- Century Revivals

2 Female Religious Leadership in the Age of Revolution

3 Female Preaching in the Early Nineteenth Century

4 Conversion and the Call to Preach

5 Evangelical Women in the Pulpit

6 Female Peddlers of the Word

7 The Battle over Female Preaching

8 Female Preaching in the Millerite Movement

Write the Vision

Female Preachers and Exhorters in America, 1740Ð1845

Bibliography.

Notes:

Papers presented at several seminars and conferences.

Includes bibliographical references P. [425]-452) and index.

ISBN:

9798890870599

9780807866542

0807866547

OCLC:

45843967