Strangers and Pilgrims

Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845
1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-8078-4745-9
Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 814 g

Reihe: Gender and American Culture

Margaret Meuse Clay, who barely escaped a public whipping in the 1760s for preaching without a license; ""Old Elizabeth,"" an ex-slave who courageously traveled to the South to preach against slavery in the early nineteenth century; Harriet Livermore, who spoke in front of Congress four times between 1827 and 1844--these are just a few of the extraordinary women profiled in this, the first comprehensive history of female preaching in early America. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Catherine Brekus examines the lives of more than a hundred female preachers--both white and African American--who crisscrossed the country between 1740 and 1845. Outspoken, visionary, and sometimes contentious, these women stepped into the pulpit long before twentieth-century battles over female ordination began. They were charismatic, popular preachers, who spoke to hundreds and even thousands of people at camp and revival meetings, and yet with but a few notable exceptions--such as Sojourner Truth--these women have essentially vanished from our history. Recovering their stories, Brekus shows, forces us to rethink many of our common assumptions about eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American culture. Profiles the women preachers--white and African-American--who struggled to forge an enduring tradition of female religious leadership in early America

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brekus, Catherine A.

Über Autor(innen)

CATHERINE A. BREKUS is associate professor of the history of Christianity at the University of Chicago Divinity School and author of Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845 (from the University of North Carolina Press).