Lloyd Women and the shaping of British Methodism

Persistent preachers, 1807–1907
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-84779-323-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Reihe: Gender in History

A response to the prominent Methodist historian David Hempton’s call to analyse women’s experience within Methodism, this book is the first to deal with British Methodist women preachers over the entire nineteenth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lloyd, Jennifer M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen Methodistische Kirchen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Women in eighteenth-century Methodism
2. Women preachers’ place in a divided Methodism
3. The heyday of female itinerancy
4. Philanthropists, volunteers, fund-raisers and local preachers
5. Women as revivalists
6. Women in missions at home and abroad
7. Deaconesses, Sisters of the People and the revival of female itinerancy
Afterword
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jennifer Lloyd is Associate Professor of History at the College at Brockport, State University of New York