Episcopal Women: Gender, Spirituality, and Commitment in an American Mainline DenominationCatherine M. Prelinger Oxford University Press, 1992 - 363 pages The opening of the ordained ministry to women, in the larger context of the women's movement in America, has created an unprecedented situation within Protestant denominations. Women are now increasingly visible in religious organizations previously administered solely by men. Congregations, church agencies, educational institutions, and volunteer organizations are all affected by the "gender shift" within mainstream Protestantism. Episcopal Women is the first careful historical and sociological study of the impact of these gender changes on a particular religious institution. This groundbreaking volume includes essays on Episcopal theology and women's spirituality, the urban church, aging and the church, women's organizations, women donors, clerical leadership, and black women's experience in the Episcopal Church. |
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... lives and attitudes also undermined the separate tradition of the guilds after World War II . Throughout the 1950s and 1960s a growing number of married women joined the paid work force . At first the women's groups adapted by expanding ...
... lives and attitudes also undermined the separate tradition of the guilds after World War II . Throughout the 1950s and 1960s a growing number of married women joined the paid work force . At first the women's groups adapted by expanding ...
Page 166
... lives and in the church during the past generation . This medley of unique voices is far less representative of the diversity of Episcopal women than it should be , of course . Even so , it furnishes insights into several worlds in ...
... lives and in the church during the past generation . This medley of unique voices is far less representative of the diversity of Episcopal women than it should be , of course . Even so , it furnishes insights into several worlds in ...
Page 355
... Lives of English Women 1760-1930 , ed . Gail Malmgreen ( London : Croom Helm ; Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1986 ) ; and “ The Nineteenth - Century Deaconessate in Germany : The Efficacy of a Family Model , " in German Women ...
... Lives of English Women 1760-1930 , ed . Gail Malmgreen ( London : Croom Helm ; Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1986 ) ; and “ The Nineteenth - Century Deaconessate in Germany : The Efficacy of a Family Model , " in German Women ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Historical Perspectives | 17 |
Galveston | 72 |
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