Religious Institutions and Women's Leadership

by Wessinger, Catherine

• ISBN13: 9781570030734
• ISBN10: 1570030731
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Pr

Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Women's Religious Leadership in the United States	p. 3
Grandes Dames, Femmes Fortes, and Matrones: Reformed Women Ministering	p. 39
Women's Ministries Within the United Church of Christ	p. 58
Women and the Unitarian-Universalist Ministry	p. 79
Conversions and Their Consequences: Women's Ministry and Leadership in the United Methodist Tradition	p. 101
Women's Ministries and the African Methodist Episcopal Tradition	p. 124
The Promise Fulfilled: Women's Ministries in the Wesleyan/Holiness Movement	p. 139
Women and the Baptist Experience	p. 158
Women in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	p. 180
Women's Ordination in the Anglican Communion: Can This Church Be Saved?	p. 211
Ministry of American Catholic Sisters: The Vowed Life in Church Renewal	p. 231
Ministerial Attitudes and Aspirations of Catholic Laywomen in the United States	p. 244
Are Women Changing the Rabbinate? A Reform Perspective	p. 271
Women in the Reconstructionist Rabbinate	p. 291
Faithful Daughters and Ultimate Rebels: The First Class of Conservative Jewish Women Rabbis	p. 311
Women's Voices: The Challenge of Feminism to Judaism	p. 331
Key Events for Women's Religious Leadership in the United States - Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries	p. 347
Notes on Contributors	p. 405
Index	p. 411
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