Religious History of American Women Reimagining the Past

Name: Religious History of American Women Reimagining the Past
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ISBN: 9780807858004

ISBN-10: 0807858005

ISBN-13: 9780807858004

Edition: 2007

Authors: Catherine A. Brekus

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More than a generation after the rise of women's history alongside the feminist movement, it is still difficult, observes Catherine Brekus, to locate women in histories of American religion. Mary Dyer, a Quaker who was hanged for heresy; Lizzie Robinson,

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List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 4/23/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Introduction: Searching for Women in Narratives of American Religious History




Puritan Women, Spiritual Power, and the Question of Sexuality




Revelation, Witchcraft, and the Danger of Knowing God's Secrets




Hail Mary Down by the Riverside: Black and White Catholic Women in Early America




Sarah Osborn's Enlightenment: Reimagining Eighteenth-Century Intellectual History




Beyond the Meetinghouse: Women and Protestant Spirituality in Early America




Unrespectable Saints: Women of the Church of God in Christ




Women's Popular Literature as Theological Discourse: A Mormon Case Study, 1880-1920




The "New Woman" at the "University": Gender and American Catholic Identity in the Progressive Era




Faith, Feminism, and History




"Are You the White Sisters or the Black Sisters?": Women Confounding Categories of Race and Gender




Engendering Dissent: Women and American Judaism




Little Slices of Heaven and Mary's Candy Kisses: Mexican American Women Redefining Feminism and Catholicism



Acknowledgments


Selected Readings


Contributors


Index