Women preachers and prophets through two millennia of Christianity /edited by Beverly Mayne Kienzle and Pamela J. Walker.
Description
Prophetic power and women's authority -- The early Christian Orans -- Maria Magdalena -- The prostitute-preacher -- The voice of the good women -- The right of women to give religious instruction in the thirteenth century -- Prophecy and song -- Proclaiming sanctity through proscribed acts -- Women's sermons at the end of the Middle Ages -- Feminine exemplars for reform -- Preaching or teaching? -- A voice for themselves -- In a female voice -- Spirituality and/as ideology in Black women's literature -- A chaste and fervid eloquence -- Prophetess of the spirits -- Transforming the pulpit.
xxii, 362 p. :ill. ;23 cm.
Book Details
Place Published
City
Berkeley
Date Published
circa 1998
Publication Subjects
Women clergy--History.
Women evangelists--History.
Sex role--Religious aspects--Christianity--History.
Women in Christianity--History.