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Episcopal women : gender, spirituality, and commitment in an American mainline denomination
- Title
- Episcopal women : gender, spirituality, and commitment in an American mainline denomination / edited by Catherine M. Prelinger.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Prelinger, Catherine M.
- Description
- xii, 363 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Episcopal Women is an unprecedented exploration of the historical and present "lived experience" of women in one mainline-Protestant American church. It probes the realities of women who count themselves members of a contemporary Protestant church - one that is changing, though not as rapidly as the world in which it is set. As women become increasingly visible in religious organizations previously administered entirely by men, congregations, church agencies, educational institutions, and volunteer organizations are all being affected by the "gender shift."" "Focused on the Episcopal church as a representative case study, these essays offer a careful historical and sociological examination of the impact of these gender changes. Personal narratives are combined with intergenerational studies of women in several congregations to illustrate how women - always the majority in Sunday morning congregations - continue to find and create their own spiritual realities within a traditional institution." "The authors highlight the centrality of women in today's church from a variety of perspectives - feminist, historical, biographical, and theoretical. Included are essays on Episcopal women's theology and spirituality, women as mainstays of the urban church, aging as a metaphor for the institutional church, women's organizations, the impact of women in the clerical profession, and black women's experience in the Episcopal Church. Challenging the church's dominantly masculine self-image, this book presents a convincing view of today's religious reality for women in a mainline church."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Religion in America series
- Uniform Title
- Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Woman's work and woman's calling in the Episcopal Church : Chicago, 1880-1989 / Rima Lunin Schultz -- Episcopal women as community leaders : Galveston, 1900-1989 / Elizabeth Hayes Turner -- Women and the parallel church : a view from congregations / Joan R. Gundersen -- Beyond the parallel church : strategies of separatism and integration in the governing councils of the Episcopal Church / Mary Sudman Donovan -- Gender and generations in congregations / Joanne B. Gillespie -- Different voices : African American Women in the Episcopal Church / Marjorie Nichols Farmer -- Women's workers of devotion : feasts, fairs, and festivities / Irene Q. Brown -- A woman's journey toward priesthood : an autobiographical study from the 1950s through the 1980s / Sandra Hughes Boyd -- Ordained women in the Episcopal Church : their impact on the work and structure of the clergy / Catherine M. Prelinger -- The anthropology of vitality and decline : the Episcopal Church in a changing society / Constance H. Buchanan -- Theory, theology, and Episcopal churchwomen / Margaret R. Miles -- Afterword : Episcopal women in the context of American religious life / Dorothy C. Bass.
- ISBN
- 0195074335
- 9780195074338
- LCCN
- 91046036
- OCLC
- ocm25009604
- 25009604
- SCSB-1965918
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library