Turn the Pulpit Loose Two Centuries of American Women Evangelists

by Pope-Levison, Priscilla

• ISBN13: 9781403965295
• ISBN10: 1403965293
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-10
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Turn the Pulpit Loose features the lives and words of eighteen women evangelists including Sojourner Truth and Evangeline Booth, and lesser-known figures such as Jarena Lee (an African Methodist from the early 1800s) and Uldine Utley (a child evangelist in the early 1900s) who helped to shape American religious life from the nation's infancy to the present. Highlighting substantial primary sources - sermons, articles, diaries, letters, speeches, and autobiographies - Priscilla Pope-Levison weaves together fascinating narratives of each woman's life: her conversion and calling to preach, her primary evangelistic method, and her reflections about women in general. This anthology, complete with photographs of each evangelist, is an indispensable resource for a wide range of academic fields, including religion, history, women's studies, and literature.

Author Biography

Priscilla Pope-Levison is a Professor of Theology, and Assistant Director of Women’s Studies at Seattle Pacific University. Her research interests include women’s religious history, evangelism, and contextual theology, and she has published numerous articles in each of these areas. Her previous books include Evangelization from a Liberation Perspective, and with John R. Levison, Jesus in Global Contexts and Return to Babel: Global Perspectives on the Bible.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(132)
1. Jarena Lee	25	(14)
2. Harriet Livermore	39	(10)
3. Sojourner Truth	49	(12)
4. Phoebe Palmer	61	(12)
5. Jennie Fowler Willing	73	(12)
6. Amanda Berry Smith	85	(12)
7. Maria Woodworth-Etter	97	(14)
8. Martha Moore Avery	111	(12)
9. Hulda Rees	123	(10)
10. Alma White	133	(14)
11. Mary Lee Cagle	147	(10)
12. Evangeline Booth	157	(12)
13. Helen Sunday	169	(10)
14. Iva Durham Vennard	179	(8)
15. Aimee Semple McPherson	187	(18)
16. Ida Robinson	205	(8)
17. Kathryn Kuhlman	213	(10)
18. Uldine Utley	223	(12)
Glossary of Biblical Figures	235	(6)
Glossary of Churches and Denominations	241	(4)
Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources	245	(4)
Subject Index	249	(6)
Index of Scripture References	255