Sisters and Saints: Women and American ReligionOxford University Press, 2007 M11 21 - 144 pages "Women are the backbone of the church," says an old African-American aphorism. Since the 1660s, women have made up the majority of members in almost all American religious groups. They have provided essential financial and social support and worked tirelessly in the background of church-based activities. Throughout American history, women have raised money for churches and synagogues, embroidered altar cloths, taught Sunday school, prepared parish meals, and sung in the choir. They have educated their children in their beliefs and taken them to their places of worship. Yet it is primarily men who have historically occupied the high rungs of church hierarchy and made the important decisions affecting their congregations. Ann Braude examines the central role of women in American religious history, focusing on their efforts to achieve greater recognition and equal rights, their recent admission to religious leadership, and the emergence of feminist theology in the late 20th century. Colonist Margaret Winthrop, African-American preacher Jarena Lee, Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, and Zionist leader Henrietta Szold are among the women discussed in these pages who have made major contributions to the spiritual and material growth of religious organizations in America. |
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... husband at the head of the family as a guide and protector. Because of men's God-given role, their votes represented the interests of their wives and daughters. When women began to fight for the vote, they claimed that they should be ...
... husband at the head of the family as a guide and protector. Because of men's God-given role, their votes represented the interests of their wives and daughters. When women began to fight for the vote, they claimed that they should be ...
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... husband, John, left England to lead a party of settlers to a distant and unknown place: North America. Margaret shared her husband's passion for the new religious movement of Puritanism, so-called because its followers hoped to purify ...
... husband, John, left England to lead a party of settlers to a distant and unknown place: North America. Margaret shared her husband's passion for the new religious movement of Puritanism, so-called because its followers hoped to purify ...
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... husband in Massachusetts, where she resumed the role she had played in the Winthrop household in England. As helpmate to her husband, and, with him, head of a large household of children and servants, she had substantial ...
... husband in Massachusetts, where she resumed the role she had played in the Winthrop household in England. As helpmate to her husband, and, with him, head of a large household of children and servants, she had substantial ...
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... husbands. “Wives be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church,” taught the Apostle Paul, and Margaret Winthrop accepted this idea without question. But John ...
... husbands. “Wives be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church,” taught the Apostle Paul, and Margaret Winthrop accepted this idea without question. But John ...
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... Husbands were forbidden to strike their wives or to command them to do anything contrary to the laws of God. In the government of the household, the wife's authority equaled her husband's as a parent of children or as a mistress of ...
... Husbands were forbidden to strike their wives or to command them to do anything contrary to the laws of God. In the government of the household, the wife's authority equaled her husband's as a parent of children or as a mistress of ...
Contents
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When the Spirit Moves Women | 28 |
Mothers and Daughters Maintain the Home | 48 |
Organized Womanhood | 69 |
Old Faiths in New Times | 94 |
CHRONOLOGY | 121 |
FURTHER READING | 124 |
INDEX | 128 |
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