Margaret Mead - A Twentieth-Century Faith

This volume introduces a side of Margaret Mead that few people know. Coffman provides a fascinating account of Mead's life and reinterprets her work, highlighting religious concerns.

List of contents

• 1: Choosing Church


• 2: Student Marriage


• 3: Coming of Age


• 4: Bread and Wine


• 5: War Work


• 6: Building the World New


• 7: Back to Church


• 8: Margaret Mead Answers


• 9: Spiritual Significance


• 10: For the Joy of the Working


• Selected Bibliography

About the author

Elesha J. Coffman is Assistant Professor of history at Baylor University. She is the author of The Christian Century and the Rise of Mainline Protestantism (OUP, 2013).

Summary

This volume introduces a side of Margaret Mead that few people know. Coffman provides a fascinating account of Mead's life and reinterprets her work, highlighting religious concerns.

Additional text

Coffman's reconstruction of Margaret Mead's spiritual life is a commendable intervention in our popular understanding of Margaret Mead. Like her faith, Margaret Mead cannot be easily categorized, and readers will walk away from this biography not only with a reminder of Mead's complex identity, but also with a view into what kinds of existences were possible within liberal Protestantism.

Product details

• Authors: Elesha J. Coffman, Elesha J. (Assistant Professor of History Coffman, Coffman Elesha J.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.01.2021
• EAN: 9780198834939
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883493-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Spiritual Lives
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; RELIGION / Christianity / Protestant, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious, 20th Century, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Religion, Biography: religious & spiritual, Gender studies, gender groups, Church history, Biography: religious and spiritual, Humanist & Secular Alternatives To Religion, Humanist and secular alternatives to religion, Protestantism & Protestant Churches, Protestantism and Protestant Churches