Women and the Shaping of British Methodism

Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Lloyd is Associate Professor of History at the College at Brockport, State University of New York Klappentext A response to the prominent Methodist historian David Hempton's call to analyse women's experience within Methodism, this book is the first to deal with British Methodist women preachers over the entire nineteenth century. Zusammenfassung A response to the prominent Methodist historian David Hempton’s call to analyse women’s experience within Methodism, this book is the first to deal with British Methodist women preachers over the entire nineteenth century. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figuresAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Women in eighteenth-century Methodism2. Women preachers' place in a divided Methodism3. The heyday of female itinerancy4. Philanthropists, volunteers, fund-raisers and local preachers5. Women as revivalists6. Women in missions at home and abroad7. Deaconesses, Sisters of the People and the revival of female itinerancy Afterword BibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Lloyd, Jennifer M Lloyd, Jennifer M. Lloyd, Lloyd Jennifer M.
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2010
• EAN: 9780719078859
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-7885-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 225 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Gender in History; Gender in History (Hardcover); Gender in History; Gender in History (Hardcover)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, RELIGION / Christianity / Methodist, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, Methodist Churches