The religious history of American women [[electronic resource] ] : reimagining the past / / edited by Catherine A. Brekus

• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill [N.C.], : University of North Carolina Press, c2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (351 p.)
• Disciplina: 200.82/0973
• Soggetto topico: Women and religion - United States - History
• Soggetto geografico: United States Religion
• Altri autori: BrekusCatherine A
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Puritan women, spiritual power, and the question of sexuality / Marilyn J. Westerkamp - Revelation, witchcraft, and the danger of knowing God's secrets / Elizabeth Reis - Hail Mary down by the riverside: black and white Catholic women in early America / Emily Clark - Sarah Osborn's enlightenment: reimagining Eighteenth-Century intellectual history / Catherine A. Brekus - Beyond the meetinghouse: women and Protestant spirituality in early America / Janet Moore Lindman - Unrespectable saints: women of the church of God in Christ / Anthea D. Butler - Women's popular literature as theological discourse: a Mormon case study, 1880-1920 / Susanna Morrill - The "new woman" at the "university": gender and American Catholic identity in the Progressive Era / Kathleen Sprows Cummings - Faith, Feminism and history / Ann Braude - "Are you the white sisters or the black sisters?": women confounding categories of race and gender / Amy Koehlinger - Engendering dissent: women and American Judaism / Pamela S. Nadell - Little slices of Heaven and Mary's candy kisses: Mexican American women redefining Feminism and Catholicism / Kristy Nabhan-Warren.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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, a former slave and laundress who sold Bibles door to door; Sally Priesand, a Reform rabbi; Estela Ruiz, who saw a vision of the Virgin Mary--how do these women's stories change our understanding of American religious history and American women's history?In this provocative collection of twelve essays, contributors explore how consideri
• Titolo autorizzato: The religious history of American women
• ISBN: 1-4696-0517-1; 0-8078-6799-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813226903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II