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| Contents | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Recovering the History of Female Preaching in America | |
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| There Is Neither Male nor Female | |
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| Caught Up in God | |
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| Female Evangelism in the Eighteenth-Century Revivals | |
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| Women in the Wilderness | |
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| Female Religious Leadership in the Age of Revolution | |
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| Sisters in Christ, Mothers in Israel | |
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| Female Laborers in the Harvest | |
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| Female Preaching in the Early Nineteenth Century | |
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| The Last Shall Be First: Conversion and the Call to Preach | |
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| Lift Up Thy Voice Like a Trumpet: Evangelical Women in the Pulpit | |
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| God and Mammon | |
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| Female Peddlers of the Word | |
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| Let Your Women Keep Silence | |
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| Suffer Not a Woman to Teach | |
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| The Battle over Female Preaching | |
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| Your Sons and Daughters Shall Prophesy | |
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| Female Preaching in the Millerite Movement Epilogue | |
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| Write the Vision Appendix | |
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| Female Preachers and Exhorters in America, 1740-1845 | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Acknowledgment | |
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| Index | |
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| Illustrations | |
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| The Capitol, Washington, D.C. Harriet Livermore (1827) | |
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| Jonathan Edwards's notes on the Bathsheba Kingsley case (1743) | |
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| A Society of Patriotic Ladies(1775) | |
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| Portrait of Jemima Wilkinson by John L. D. Mathies (1816) | |
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| Methodist church in Unity, New Hampshire (1823) | |
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| A Methodist camp meeting held in Queen Anne's County, Maryland Title page of Elleanor Warner Knight | |
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| A Narrative of the Christian Experience, Life and Adventures, Trials and Labours of Elleanor Knight, Written by Herself (1839) | |
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| Major Nancy Towle Rebecca Miller's article on the "Duty of Females" (1841) | |
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| An advertisement for Harriet Livermore's books (1832) | |
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| Truth (1864) | |
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| A Methodist camp meeting (1820) | |
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| St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, New York City (1859) | |
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| A Millerite chart (1843) The Millerites' Great Tent (1844) | |
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