Women in American Religion / / Janet Wilson James.

Cotton Mather called them "the hidden ones." Although historians of religion occasionally refer to the fact that women have always constituted a majority of churchgoers, until recently none of them have investigated the historical implications of the situation or v the role of woman in the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
©1980
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:Reprint 2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (274 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Women in American Religious History
  • Saints and Sisters
  • “Sisters” in Christ
  • Vertuous Women Found
  • A Women's Awakening
  • She Hath Done What She Could
  • Catholic Women Religious and Women's History
  • Organized Voluntarism
  • American Women in Ministry
  • Eve, Mary, and American Catholicism the Historians
  • Transitions in Judaism
  • Birth Control and the Lutherans
  • Minister's Wife, Widow, Reluctant Feminist
  • Contributors