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Women preachers and prophets through two millennia of Christianity / edited by Beverly Mayne Kienzle and Pamela J. Walker
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TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1998Description: xxii, 362 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: - 0520209214 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0520209222 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 270/.082 21
- BV676 .W556 1998
Contents:
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
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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
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