Women, Gender and Religious Cultures in Britain, 1800-1940

ISBN-13: 9780415231152 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 256 str.

Sue Morgan;Jacqueline de Vries

Opis

This edited volume is a comprehensive overview of women, gender and religious change in modern Britain spanning from the evangelical revival of the early 1800s to interwar debates over women's roles and ministry.

Spis treści

Introduction Sue Morgan and Jacqueline DeVries  1. Is there a Bible in the house? Gender, Religion and Family Culture Sarah Williams  2 Women, Writing and the Creation of Theological Cultures Julie Melnyk  3 Women and Philanthropic Cultures Susan Mumm  4 Women, religious ministry and female institution-building Carmen Mangion  5 ‘With fear and trembling’: women, preaching and spiritual authority Pamela Walker  6 Professionalising their faith: Women, religion and the cultures of mission and empire Rhonda Semple  7 Women, religion and reform Clare Midgley  8 ‘The Word Made Flesh’: Women, Religion and Sexual Cultures Sue Morgan  9 More than Paradoxes to Offer: Feminism, History and Religious Cultures Jacqueline DeVries  10 Modernity, Heterodoxy and the Transformation of Religious Cultures Joy Dixon  Afterword: Women, Gender and Religion in post-1940 Britain Sue Morgan and Jacqueline DeVries Index

O autorze

Sue Morgan is Reader in Women’s and Gender History at the University of Chichester. Her publications include Women, Religion and Feminism in Britain, 1750-1900 (2002) and The Feminist History Reader (2006).

Jacqueline deVries is Associate Professor of History at Augsburg College in Minneapolis. She has published a number of essays on the intersections among religion, gender, feminism and war, and is co-author, with Cheri Register, of Living Faith (2007).