Readings in Her Story: Women in Christian TraditionBarbara J. MacHaffie Fortress Press - 238 pages A unique anthology. Barbara MacHaffie has collected into one volume 74 of the most important Christian documents and passages by and about women. Ranging from Genesis to now, these primary sources put the reader directly in touch with the most significant and influential events, personalities and issues of women's religious history. Often lamentably and sometimes gloriously, these voices ancient and modern, female and male, Roman Catholic and Protestant, feminist and patriarchal bear decisively on women's identities today. |
Table des matières
BIBLICAL IMAGES OF WOMEN | 1 |
2 THE MENSTRUAL TABOO | 2 |
3 A CREATION STORY | 3 |
4 EQUALITY IN LOVE | 6 |
5 SOME RABBINIC TRADITIONS | 10 |
6 MARY AND MARTHA | 11 |
8 PAUL ON MARRIAGE | 13 |
9 HEADCOVERING IN THE CHURCH | 15 |
40 EULOGY FOR GEORGE WHITEFIELD | 108 |
41 QUAKER WOMEN MAY SPEAK | 109 |
42 QUAKER WOMEN AS MISSIONARIES | 112 |
WOMEN ORGANIZING FOR MISSION AND REFORM | 115 |
44 EXTENDING WOMANS SPHERE | 117 |
45 THE CAUSE OF MORAL REFORM | 120 |
46 EQUAL RIGHTS AND MORAL DUTIES | 123 |
47 WOMANS INFLUENCE MUST BE UNOBTRUSIVE | 128 |
WOMEN AND THE EARLY CHURCHES | 17 |
12 CHRISTIAN WIDOWS | 19 |
13 GNOSTIC IMAGES OF THE DIVINE | 20 |
14 WOMEN IN GNOSTIC RITUAL | 22 |
15 THE MARTYRDOM OF PERPETUA | 24 |
16 ADORNING WOMEN | 27 |
17 A MODEL OF CHRISTIAN ASCETICISM | 33 |
18 EGERIA IN THE HOLY LAND | 40 |
VIRGIN AND WITCH WOMEN IN MEDIEVAL CHRISTIANITY | 44 |
20 MELANIA THE YOUNGER AS ASCETIC TEACHER | 47 |
21 REJECTING PATRIARCHAL MARRIAGE | 49 |
22 HUNTING FOR WITCHES | 53 |
23 VIRTUOUS WOMEN | 57 |
24 MARGERY KEMPE | 61 |
25 JESUS AS A MOTHER | 63 |
26 PERSUADING A POPE | 65 |
WOMEN IN AN ERA OF REFORMATION | 68 |
28 CALVIN ON THE CREATION OF WOMAN | 72 |
29 LUTHER ON FEMALE PREACHING | 75 |
30 CALVIN ON THE SILENCE OF WOMEN | 76 |
31 CATHOLIC WOMEN IN GENEVA | 79 |
32 MARRIAGE AND ADULTERY AMONG THE HUTTERITES | 84 |
33 THE MARTYRDOM OF ANABAPTIST ELIZABETH OF LEEUWARDEN | 86 |
34 THE SISTERS CHOIR AT EPHRATA | 90 |
WOMEN AND CHRISTIANITY IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES | 92 |
36 WIVES AS MODEL CHRISTIANS | 95 |
37 ANNE HUTCHINSON | 97 |
38 THE UNFEMININE ACTIVITIES OF SARAH OSBORN | 102 |
39 SARAH EDWARDSS RELIGIOUS ECSTASY | 105 |
48 THE GATHERING OF WOMEN FOR MISSIONS | 130 |
49 MISSIONARY WOMEN STEP BEYOND THEIR SPHERE | 133 |
NINETEENTHCENTURY PREACHERS AND SCHOLARS | 139 |
51 BIBLICAL EXAMPLES OF PREACHING WOMEN | 142 |
52 AMANDA SMITHS CALL TO PREACH | 146 |
53 PAUL PROHIBITS THE PREACHING OF WOMEN | 153 |
54 METHODIST DEACONESSES | 155 |
55 WOMEN REVISION THE BIBLE | 157 |
AMERICAN WOMEN IN CATHOLICISM AND SECTARIANISM | 163 |
57 CATHOLIC SISTERS AS AMERICAS EDUCATORS | 166 |
58 CATHOLIC SISTERS AS CIVIL WAR NURSES | 171 |
59 COMPLEX MARRIAGE IN THE ONEIDA COMMUNITY | 177 |
60 THE DUALITY OF GOD IN SHAKER BELIEF | 181 |
61 SHAKER WOMEN IN COMMUNITY | 184 |
62 PUBLIC ROLES FOR WOMEN IN CHRISTIAN SCIENCE | 187 |
THE MOVE TOWARD FULL PARTICIPATION | 191 |
64 UNREST AMONG PRESBYTERIAN WOMEN | 192 |
65 INVESTIGATING THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN THE CHURCHES | 198 |
66 PRESBYTERIAN WOMEN AS MINISTERS | 205 |
67 RAISING THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF BAPTIST WOMEN | 207 |
68 THE PATRIARCHAL CHURCH | 210 |
AGENTS OF TRANSFORMATION | 216 |
70 TRANSFORMATION OF THE CATHOLIC SISTERHOOD | 218 |
71 A NEW LEADERSHIP STYLE | 223 |
72 A FEMINIST CRITIQUE OF THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION | 228 |
73 INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE FOR WORSHIP | 232 |
74 FEMINIST VIEWS OF SIN AND SALVATION | 234 |
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