You have stept out of your place : a history of women and religion in America
Susan Hill Lindley presents the story of women and religion in America from the colonial period through the mid-1990s. Women throughout American history have repeatedly been accused of "stepping out of their places" as many have fought for more rewarding roles in the church and society. In this book, Lindley demonstrates that just as religion in the traditional sense has influenced the lives of American women through its institutions, values, and sanctions, so women themselves have had a significant effect on the shape of American religion through the years. Lindley chronicles the struggles and successes of scores of American women who, beginning with the Puritan Anne Hutchinson, have challenged the subordinate roles assigned to them by their families, churches, and society, in defiance of the presumed divine sanction for their subordination
Print Book, English, ©1996
Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, Ky., ©1996
History
1580
xi, 500 pages ; 24 cm
9780664220815, 9780664257996, 0664220819, 0664257992
34150256
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