Women Preaching Revolution : : Calling for Connection in a Disconnected Time / / Elaine J. Lawless.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Lawless, Elaine J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

Do women preach differently than men? In Women Preaching Revolution Elaine J. Lawless contends that they do. Drawing on her study of more than 150 sermons and extensive interviews with the clergywomen who preached them, Lawless argues that women have changed traditional preaching in ways that reflect their socialization as women and their experiences of being female in America. Many of the women in her study were expected to take courses on the art of preaching as part of their seminary training. Most of them rejected the sermon structure and strategies they were taught in seminary, viewing them as part of a "male" homiletic tradition, and developed styles that celebrate their commitment to connection, relationship, and dialogue.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: Spirals Within Spirals: The Helix as a Theological Model -- A Womans Faith -- Sometimes You Just Gotta Break the Rules -- The Writer as Author/ized Storyteller -- Making Connections -- Making Sense of Primal Stew -- Musings from a Hot Blackberry Patch -- Hearing Women Speak -- Bearing Fruit (I) -- Bearing Fruit (II) -- My Journal Remembers -- A Grateful Heart -- Christs Healing Touch -- Reciprocal Ethnography at Work -- An Owners Manual for the Bible -- Scraps from the Table -- Narrative in Women's Sermons -- Letting Go and Letting Grow -- The Good News According to Ziggy -- What Women Bring to Christian Religion -- When Two or More Are Gathered -- Putting Gods Blueprint into Action -- The Gifts of God -- What Should I Do? -- Bibliography -- Index