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Women preachers and prophets through two millennia of Christianity / edited by Beverly Mayne Kienzle and Pamela J. Walker - Berkeley : University of California Press, c1998 - xxii, 362 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Prophetic power and women's authority -- The early Christian Orans -- Maria Magdalena -- The prostitute-preacher -- The voice of the good women -- The right of women to give religious instruction in the thirteenth century -- Prophecy and song -- Proclaiming sanctity through proscribed acts -- Women's sermons at the end of the Middle Ages -- Feminine exemplars for reform -- Preaching or teaching? -- A voice for themselves -- In a female voice -- Spirituality and/as ideology in Black women's literature -- A chaste and fervid eloquence -- Prophetess of the spirits -- Transforming the pulpit

ISBN: 0520209214 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0520209222 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 97030743

Nat. Bib. No.: GB98-58086

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women clergy--History
Women evangelists--History
Sex role--Religious aspects--Christianity--History
Women in Christianity--History
Women clergy--History
Women evangelists--History
Women in Christianity--History
Sex role--Religious aspects--Christianity--History

LC Class. No.: BV676 / .W556 1998

Dewey Class. No.: 270/.082