Godly Women

by Brasher, Brenda E.

• ISBN13: 9780813524689
• ISBN10: 0813524687
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-02-01
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

Fundamentalist women are often depicted as dedicated to furthering the goals and ideas of fundamentalist men and thus of ancillary importance to the movement as a whole. Godly Women, Brenda Brasher's ethnographic study, reveals the paradox that fundamentalist women can be powerful people in a religious cosmos generally understood to be organized around their disempowerment.

Author Biography

Brenda E. Brasher is an assistant professor of religion at Mount Union College.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Inside a Christian Fundamentalist Congregation A Sacred Canopy With a Sacred Partition	p. 8
Summary and Conclusions	p. 27
Joining Up Women And Fundamentalist Conversion	p. 30
Summary and Conclusions	p. 55
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Authority and Power In Congregational Life	p. 58
Summary and Conclusions	p. 86
My Beloved is All-Radiant Experiences And Ideas of Faith	p. 91
Summary and Conclusions	p. 122
The Order Of God Sex, Marriage, And Family Life	p. 125
Epilogue: Being Female And Fundamentalist in The Third Millennium	p. 165
Summary and Conclusions	p. 179
Schedule of Interviewees	p. 183
Interview Guide	p. 186
Notes	p. 197
References	p. 205
Index	p. 213
About the Author	p. 217
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