Sanctified Sisters

Author : Jenny Wiley Legath
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479860638
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sanctified Sisters written by Jenny Wiley Legath and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of the deaconess movement in the United States In the late nineteenth century, a new movement arose within American Protestant Christianity. Unsalaried groups of women began living together, wearing plain dress, and performing nursing, teaching, and other works of welfare. Modeled after the lifestyles of Catholic nuns, these women became America’s first deaconesses. Sanctified Sisters,the first history of the deaconess movement in the United States, traces its origins in the late nineteenth century through to its present manifestations. Drawing on archival research, demographic surveys, and material culture evidence, Jenny Wiley Legath offers new insights into who the deaconesses were, how they lived, and what their legacy has been for women in Protestant Christianity. The book argues that the deaconess movement enabled Protestant women—particularly single women—to gain power in a male-dominated Protestant world. They created hundreds of new institutions within Protestantism and created new roles for women within the church. While some who study women’s ordination draw a line from the deaconesses’ work to the struggle for women’s ordination in various branches of Protestant Christianity, Legath argues that most deaconesses were not interested in ordination. Yet, while they didn’t mean to, they did end up providing a foundation for today’s ordination debates. Their very existence worked to open the possibility of ecclesiastically authorized women’s agency.

Author : Thomasena Williams
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1456885715
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Getting Raw With the Sanctified Sisters written by Thomasena Williams and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-05-21 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every sanctified sister needs to be reminded that there are still issues we may have and things we encounter that will make us feel unworthy of the promises of God. One thing is, some of us are tricked by a feeling of thinking we need a man to feel we can make it. Most importantly we must realize that all we need is Jesus. We need to stay focus on the things of God and stop trying to out do each other. God can use us when we truly seek him, trust and love him. Sanctifi ed Women need to come together and stop being jealous and hating on each other. We need to be pure on the inside. We are powerful when we come together. When we seek God first He will give us our heart’s desire.

Author : Jenny Wiley Legath
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 147984652X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sanctified Sisters written by Jenny Wiley Legath and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of the deaconess movement in the United States In the late nineteenth century, a new movement arose within American Protestant Christianity. Unsalaried groups of women began living together, wearing plain dress, and performing nursing, teaching, and other works of welfare. Modeled after the lifestyles of Catholic nuns, these women became America’s first deaconesses. Sanctified Sisters,the first history of the deaconess movement in the United States, traces its origins in the late nineteenth century through to its present manifestations. Drawing on archival research, demographic surveys, and material culture evidence, Jenny Wiley Legath offers new insights into who the deaconesses were, how they lived, and what their legacy has been for women in Protestant Christianity. The book argues that the deaconess movement enabled Protestant women—particularly single women—to gain power in a male-dominated Protestant world. They created hundreds of new institutions within Protestantism and created new roles for women within the church. While some who study women’s ordination draw a line from the deaconesses’ work to the struggle for women’s ordination in various branches of Protestant Christianity, Legath argues that most deaconesses were not interested in ordination. Yet, while they didn’t mean to, they did end up providing a foundation for today’s ordination debates. Their very existence worked to open the possibility of ecclesiastically authorized women’s agency.

Author : Evangelist Frances Elbert
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1644681471
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Single, Sanctified, and Satisfied written by Evangelist Frances Elbert and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a spiritual book for both single women and men who are struggling as they travel life without a mate. It is hoped that after reading this book, you will be able to navigate and begin seeing yourself in a better light. Readers will come to the realization of Gods' great blessings available to them. Additionally, I pray that you will reach a level of self-assurance and total trust and dependency in God. Come and journey with me as I share a few of my challenging moments of life to a point of reconciliation and true awakening that I am not missing out on anything but rather highly blessed.

Author : Susan Starr Sered
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195355784
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister written by Susan Starr Sered and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-04-11 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion is often denounced as one of the tools used by patriarchal societies to maintain the status quo, and especially to persuade women to accept subordinate roles. This does not explain, however, the existence of many religious groups in which women are both leaders and the majority of participants. How are these women's religions different from those dominated by men? What can we learn from them about the special ways in which women experience their unique reality? In this fascinating and pathbreaking work--the first comparative study of women's religions--Susan Starr Sered seeks answers to these compelling questions. Looking for common threads linking groups as diverse as the ancestral cults of the Black Caribs of Belize, Korean shamanism, Christian Science, and the Feminist Spirituality movement, Sered finds that motherhood and motherly concerns play a vital role in these female-dominated groups. Nurturing and concern for others are at the center, as are healing arts and ways of dealing with illness and the death of children. Religion not only enables women to find sacred meaning in their daily lives, from the preparation of food to caring for their families, but an offer intense and personal relationships with deities and spirits--often through ecstatic possession trance--as well as opportunities to celebrate and mourn with other women. By examining the shared experiences of women across great cultural divides, Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister offers a new understanding of the role gender plays in determining how individuals grapple with the ultimate questions of existence. In the process, it not only highlights the profound differences between men and women, but the equally important ways in which we are all alike.

Author : Melinda Zook
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137303204
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Protestantism, Politics, and Women in Britain, 1660-1714 written by Melinda Zook and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-04-07 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling new study examines the intersection between women, religion and politics in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century in Britain. It demonstrates that what inspired Dissenting and Anglican women to political action was their concern for the survival of the Protestant religion both at home and abroad.

Author : Teresa Zackodnik
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1572338407
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Press, Platform, Pulpit written by Teresa Zackodnik and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Press, Platform, Pulpit examines how early black feminism goes public by sheding new light on some of the major figures of early black feminism as well as bringing forward some lesser-known individuals who helped shape various reform movements. With a perspective unlike many other studies of black feminism, Teresa Zackodnik considers these activists as central, rather than marginal, to the politics of their day, and argues that black feminism reached critical mass well before the club movement’s national federation at the turn into the twentieth century . Throughout, she shifts the way in which major figures of early black feminism have been understood. The first three chapters trace the varied speaking styles and appeals of black women in the church, abolition, and women’s rights, highlighting audience and location as mediating factors in the public address and politics of figures such as Jarena Lee, Zilpha Elaw, Amanda Berry Smith, Ellen Craft, Sarah Parker Remond and Sojourner Truth. The next chapter focuses on Ida B. Wells’s anti-lynching tours as working within “New Abolition” and influenced by black feminists before her. The final chapter examines feminist black nationalism as it developed in the periodical press by considering Maria Stewart’s social and feminist gospel; Mary Shadd Cary’s linking of abolition, emigration, and woman suffrage; and late-nineteenth-century black feminist journalism addressing black women’s migration and labor. Early black feminists working in reforms such as abolition and women’s rights opened new public arenas, such as the press, to the voices of black women. The book concludes by focusing on the 1891 National Council of Women, Frances Harper, and Anna Julia Cooper, which together mark a generational shift in black feminism, and by exploring the possibilities of taking black feminism public through forging coalitions among women of color. Press, Platform, Pulpit goes far in deepening our understanding of early black feminism, its position in reform, and the varied publics it created for its politics. It not only moves historically from black feminist work in the church early in the nineteenth century to black feminism in the press at its close, but also explores the connections between black feminist politics across the century and specific reforms.

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Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ainslee's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 252 pages
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Download or read book The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 844 pages
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