Women in Christian Traditions / / Rebecca Moore.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Moore, Rebecca,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Women in Religions ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Women in Christian Traditions offers a concise and accessible examination of the roles women have played in the construction and practice of Christian traditions, revealing the enormous debt that this major world religion owes to its female followers. It recovers forgotten and obscured moments in church history to help us to realize a richer and fuller understanding of Christianity.This text provides an overview of the complete sweep of Christian history through the lens of feminist scholarship. Yet it also departs from some of the assumptions of that scholarship, raising questions that challenge our thinking about how women have shaped beliefs and practices during two thousand years of church history. Did the emphasis on virginity in the early church empower Christian women? Did the emphasis on marriage during the Reformations of the sixteenth century improve their status? These questions and others have important implications for women in Christianity in particular, and for women in religion in general, since they go to the heart of the human condition.This work examines themes, movements, and events in their historical contexts and locates churchwomen within the broader developments that have been pivotal in the evolution of Christianity. From the earliest disciples to the latest theologians, from the missionaries to the martyrs, women have been instrumental in keeping the faith alive. Women in Christian Traditions shows how they did so.Additional Resources

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. In the Beginning . . . Eve -- 2. The Women Disciples in the Kingdom of God -- 3. Women and the Conversion of an Empire -- 4. Saints, Seers, and Scholars in the Middle Ages -- 5. Women Reformed, Women Resistant -- 6. Spirit-Filled Women in the Nineteenth Century -- 7. Churchwomen on the Margins and in the Mainstream -- Conclusion -- Questions for Discussion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- For Further Reading -- Subject Index -- Index to the Bible and New Testament Apocrypha -- About the Author