Westminster Handbook to Women in American Religious History

Title: Westminster Handbook to Women in American Religious History
Author: Susan Hill Lindley
ISBN: 9780664224547
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2008
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 280
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C: 1697608
Section: Religion | Christianity | History
Publisher Description:

During the past four decades, large numbers of women have entered ordained leadership positions in American religious bodies, resulting in changes in aspects of church life from liturgy and theology to pastoral leadership. At the same time, an explosion of scholarship about women in American religious history has demonstrated that women have always played important roles in shaping and even leading American religious institutions. This is so despite their lack of access to formal ordination, and even though their roles were often undervalued by contemporaries and neglected by historians. The Westminster Handbook to Women in American Religious History provides students, teachers, pastors, and scholars with an accessible reference to more than 750 outstanding individual women and women's organizations.