Without Benefit of Clergy Women and the Pastoral Relationship in Nineteenth-Century American Culture

Name: Without Benefit of Clergy Women and the Pastoral Relationship in Nineteenth-Century American Culture
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ISBN: 9780195130201

ISBN-10: 0195130200

ISBN-13: 9780195130201

Edition: 2003

Authors: Karin E. Gedge, Harry S. Stout

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The common view of the nineteenth-century pastoral relationship--found in both contemporary popular accounts and 20th-century scholarship--was that women and clergymen formed a natural alliance and enjoyed a particular influence over each other. In Without Benefit of Clergy, Karin Gedge tests this thesis by examining the pastoral relationship from the perspective of the minister, the female parishioner, and the larger culture. The question that troubled religious women seeking counsel, says Gedge, was: would their minister respect them, help them, honor them? Surprisingly, she finds, the answer was frequently negative. Gedge supports her conclusion with evidence from a wide range of…

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List price: $71.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/6/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 9.41" wide x 6.30" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Without Benefit of Clergy


Introduction Dim Views of the Pastoral Relationship



The Pastoral Relationship as Perception



The Bellwether; Or, What the Traveler Saw



Gone Astray; Or, What the Public Feared



Mending Fences; Or, What the Public Saw



The Pastoral Relationship in the Literary Imagination



Paradoxical Pastors; Or, What the Novelist Imagined



The Pastoral Relationship as Ideal



Forbidden and Forgotten Territory; Or, Where the Pastor Feared to Tread



The Pastoral Relationship in Experience



The Unsteady Shepherd; Or, What the Pastor Experienced



Sheep without a Shepherd; Or, What Women Experienced


Epilogue: Separating the Ewes from the Rams; Or, Seeing through a New Lens


Appendix: Historiographical Essay: Counting Sheep; Or, What the Historian Did


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index