| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xi, 500 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Anne Hutchinson -- Quakers in Colonial America -- Puritanism in America -- Religious diversity in Colonial America -- The Great Awakening -- The ideal American woman -- The Second Great Awakening -- The foreign missionary movement -- Reform movements -- Women's religious leadership in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- The social gospel -- Native American women and religion in nineteenth-century America -- African-American women and religion in nineteenth-century America -- Roman Catholic women in nineteenth-century America -- Jewish women in nineteenth-century America -- Alternative religions in nineteenth-century America -- A nineteenth-century feminist critique of religion -- Women's religious leadership in the twentieth-century: movement in the mainline -- Women's religious leadership in the twentieth-century: ambiguity among evangelicals and Mormons -- Women's religious leadership in the twentieth-century: affirming traditional roles -- Women, religion and reform in the twentieth-century -- Woman and religion in America: looking toward the twenty-first century. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-491) and index. |
| Subject |
Women and religion -- United States -- History.
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United States -- Religion.
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| Added Title |
You have stepped out of your place |
| ISBN |
0664220819 (acid-free paper) |
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