Changing Roles of Women within the Christian Church in Canada /

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

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 ob...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.)
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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

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