Changing Roles of Women within the Christian Church in Canada / / ed. by Elizabeth G. Muir, Marilyn F. Whiteley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Barber, Marilyn,; Cook, Sharon Anne,; Epp, Marlene,; Gagan, Rosemary R.,; Grant, John Webster,; Hobbs, Helen G.,; Macfarlane, Mary Anne,; Mckenna, Katherine M J.,; Muir, Elizabeth Gillan,; Noel, Jan,; Pedersen, Diana,; Ross, H. Miriam,; Smyth, Elizabeth,; Stanley, Laurie C.C.,; Warne, Randi R.,; Whitehead, Margaret,; Whiteley, Marilyn Fardig,
• HerausgeberIn: Muir, Elizabeth G.,; Whiteley, Marilyn F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)

Canadian religious history has been written with relatively little reference to the role of women. Throughout the years, the church itself has intensified this problem by restricting the options of women -- excluding them from the most valued roles and positions. In the past, Christian women were obliged to find alternative avenues for the expression of their faith and, as a result, their experience has been unusually rich and varied. This pioneering anthology traces the history of Canadian women in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Protestant traditions from the early days through the 1960s.Seventeen Canadian scholars tell the stories of individuals who have worked in traditional and non-traditional roles, alone and as members of groups, both within and outside church structures. All of the articles present new or little-known material, relating the faith, determination, and inventiveness of women whose experience has so far been overlooked. The volume includes an introductory overview of women's church work as well as a comprehensive bibliography of papers and books published about women in the Christian church in Canada, both in English and French.The incorporation of feminist analysis and an emphasis on gender issues set this collection apart from all other studies of Canadian church history. A unique and valuable book, it not only fills a void in the chronicles of religion, it adds an important new dimension to Canadian history.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- A PSALM FOR EVERYWOMAN -- Introduction: Putting Together the Puzzle of Canadian Women's Christian Work -- Women in Religious Communities: Claiming Space within Institutions -- 1.'So Many Crosses to Bear': The Religious Hospitallers of St Joseph and the Tracadie Leper Hospital, 1868-1910 -- 2. Christian Perfection and Service to Neighbours: The Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph, Toronto, 1851-1920 -- 3. Nonconformity and Nonresistance: What Did It Mean to Mennonite Women? -- The Missionary Enterprise at Home and Abroad: Taking Charge -- 4. Sharing a Vision: Maritime Baptist Women Educate for Mission, 1870-1920 -- 5. Two-thirds of the Revenue: Presbyterian Women and Native Indian Missions -- 6. 'Let the Women Keep Silence': Women Missionary Preaching in British Columbia, 1860s-1940s -- 7. Two Sexes Warring in the Bosom of a Single Mission Station: Feminism in the Canadian Methodist Japan Mission, 1881-1895 -- Pastoral Ministry and Professional Status: Developing Occupational Roles -- 8. Beyond the Bounds of Acceptable Behaviour: Methodist Women Preachers in the Early Nineteenth Century -- 9. Modest, Unaffected, and Fully Consecrated: Lady Evangelists in Canadian Methodism -- 10. 'What She Could': Women in the Gospel Workers Church, 1902-1955 -- 11. The Motor Caravan Mission: Anglican Women Workers on the Canadian Frontier in the New Era -- 12. Faithful and Courageous Handmaidens; Deaconesses in the United Church of Canada, 1925-1945 -- From Christian Benevolence to Social Transformation: Religion as Catalyst -- 13. Women and Social Welfare in the Montreal Region, 1800-1833: Preliminary Findings -- 14. 'The Union between Faith and Good Works': The Life of Harriet Dobbs Cartwright, 1808-1887 -- 15. The Ontario Young Woman's Christian Temperance Union: A Study in Female Evangelicalism, 1874-1930 -- 16. 'The Power of True Christian Women': The YWCA and Evangelical Womanhood in the Late Nineteenth Century -- 17. Nellie McClung's Social Gospel -- Bibliography -- Index