Author: Cynthia Grant Tucker
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253208224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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An account of Unitarian and Universalist clergywomen on the western frontier in the nineteenth century, this work documents the struggles of a courageous group of nineteenth-century women to find a place in the liberal denominations of American religion.
Author: Cynthia Grant Tucker
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595006817
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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A powerful, usable history of women who broke through the boundaries of gender to enter the ordained ministry in the late 19th century.
Author: Margaret Cain McCarthy
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 0761864318
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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In 2008, the Vatican Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life initiated an Apostolic Visitation to examine the quality of life of women religious in the United States. Power of Sisterhood: Women Religious Tell the Story of the Apostolic Visitation serves as an historical record of the event and describes the experience of the women who participated in it. This book, initiated by a group of women in leadership in their communities during this unprecedented time, grew out of a survey that gleaned the essence of the experience from as many congregations of women religious as possible. After framing the Visitation as a story, situating it in an historical and theological context, tracing its chronology, and detailing the experience as revealed in the survey, the book delves into the deeper meaning of the Visitation for women religious as they experienced it and as they move into the future.
Author: Richard S. Gilbert
Publisher: Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
ISBN: 9781558964112
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Author: Pamela Susan Nadell
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 9780807036495
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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1998 National Jewish Book Award finalist Pamela S. Nadell mines a wealth of untapped sources to bring us the first complete story of the courageous and committed Jewish women who passionately defended their right to equal religious participation through rabbinical ordination.
Author: William W. Zellner
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9781572599536
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Text covering different groups in today's society like Jehovah's Witnesses, Amish, Gypsies, Mormons, etc. New chapter on Unitarian Universalists.
Author: Kenneth E. Miller
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271037431
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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A native Pennsylvanian, born in Meadville in 1867 and a graduate of Allegheny College, Frederic Howe dedicated his life early on to the cause of improving society and played a major role in many movements for progressive change from the early 1890s to the Second World War&—the period that Richard Hofstadter famously dubbed the &“age of reform.&” Howe was a fighter against corruption and political bosses in Cleveland; a leader in Progressive politics in New York City; a spokesman for reform through numerous books and articles and as director of the Cooper Union&’s People&’s Institute; an ardent campaigner for &“Fighting Bob&” La Follette, Woodrow Wilson, Al Smith, and Franklin D. Roosevelt; a defender of immigrants and civil liberties as commissioner of immigration for the Port of New York during the First World War; and an advocate for consumers as the first consumers counsel in the New Deal. Kenneth Miller&’s biography takes the reader behind the scenes and shows how &“the great game of politics&” was played in the age of reform.
Author: Amy Helene Forss
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149621336X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Amy Helene Forss explores the suffragist and feminist movements’ distinct public attributes and action strategies to establish connections between the generations of women’s rights activists.
Author: Rev. O.C. Edwards JR.
Publisher: Abingdon Press
ISBN: 1501834037
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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A History of Preaching brings together narrative history and primary sources to provide the most comprehensive guide available to the story of the church's ministry of proclamation. Bringing together an impressive array of familiar and lesser-known figures, Edwards paints a detailed, compelling picture of what it has meant to preach the gospel. Pastors, scholars, and students of homiletics will find here many opportunities to enrich their understanding and practice of preaching. Volume 1 contains Edwards's magisterial retelling of the story of Christian preaching's development from its Hellenistic and Jewish roots in the New Testament, through the late-twentieth century's discontent with outdated forms and emphasis on new modes of preaching such as narrative. Along the way the author introduces us to the complexities and contributions of preachers, both with whom we are already acquainted, and to whom we will be introduced here for the first time. Origen, Chrysostom, Augustine, Bernard, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, Wesley, Edwards, Rauschenbusch, Barth; all of their distinctive contributions receive careful attention. Yet lesser-known figures and developments also appear, from the ninth-century reform of preaching championed by Hrabanus Maurus, to the reference books developed in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries by the mendicant orders to assist their members' preaching, to Howell Harris and Daniel Rowlands, preachers of the eighteenth-century Welsh revival, to Helen Kenyon, speaking as a layperson at the 1950 Yale Beecher lectures about the view of preaching from the pew. Volume 2, available separately as 9781501833786, contains primary source material on preaching drawn from the entire scope of the church's twenty centuries. The author has written an introduction to each selection, placing it in its historical context and pointing to its particular contribution. Each chapter in Volume 2 is geared to its companion chapter in Volume 1's narrative history. Ecumenical in scope, fair-minded in presentation, appreciative of the contributions that all the branches of the church have made to the story of what it means to develop, deliver, and listen to a sermon, A History of Preaching will be the definitive resource for anyone who wishes to preach or to understand preaching's role in living out the gospel. "...'This work is expected to be the standard text on preaching for the next 30 years,' says Ann K. Riggs, who staffs the NCC's Faith and Order Commission. Author Edwards, former professor of preaching at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, is co-moderator of the commission, which studies church-uniting and church-dividing issues. 'A History of Preaching is ecumenical in scope and will be relevant in all our churches; we all participate in this field,' says Riggs...." from EcuLink, Number 65, Winter 2004-2005 published by the National Council of Churches
Author: Paula D. Nesbitt
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195106865
Category : Ordination of women
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Recent years have seen the entry of large numbers of women into the ordained clergy of Protestant churches. Nesbitt here analyzes the e×tent to which the large-scale entry of women into the ministry has affected the occupation.
