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_b.W556 1998
245 0 _aWomen Preachers and Prophets through Two Millennia of Christianity
_b /
_cedited by Beverly Mayne Kienzle and Pamela J. Walker
260 _aBerkeley, Calif. :
_bUniversity of California Press,
_c1998
300 _axxii, 362 p. :
_bill. ;
_c23 cm.
505 _aProphetic power and women's authority -- The early Christian Orans -- Maria Magdalena -- The prostitute-preacher -- The voice of the good women -- The right of women to give religious instruction in the thirteenth century -- Prophecy and song -- Proclaiming sanctity through proscribed acts -- Women's sermons at the end of the Middle Ages -- Feminine exemplars for reform -- Preaching or teaching? -- A voice for themselves -- In a female voice -- Spirituality and/as ideology in Black women's literature -- A chaste and fervid eloquence -- Prophetess of the spirits -- Transforming the pulpit.
650 _aWomen clergy—History.Women evangelists—History.Sex role—Religious aspects—Christianity—History.
700 _aKienzle, Beverly Mayne
700 _aWalker, Pamela J.
999 _c52851
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