A marginal majority: women, gender, and a reimagining of Southern Baptists

"A greater influence than you imagine" : women lead the way to Southern Baptist centralization / C. Delane Tew -- "A Christian attitude toward other races" : Southern Baptist women and race relations, 1945-1965 / Melody Maxwell -- From Molly Marshall to Sarah Palin : Southern B...

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Contributors: Flowers, Elizabeth H. (Editor) ; Seat, Karen K. (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Knoxville The University of Tennessee Press [2020]
In:Year: 2020
Edition:First edition
Series/Journal:America's Baptists
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B USA / Southern Baptist Convention / Feminist movement
Further subjects:B Baptist women (United States) History
B Feminism (United States) History
B Southern Baptist Convention History
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Summary:"A greater influence than you imagine" : women lead the way to Southern Baptist centralization / C. Delane Tew -- "A Christian attitude toward other races" : Southern Baptist women and race relations, 1945-1965 / Melody Maxwell -- From Molly Marshall to Sarah Palin : Southern Baptist gender battles and the politics of complementarianism / Karen K. Seat.
"This multiauthor volume represents a far-ranging effort to bring women into our understanding of recent Baptist history, thereby opening up the historiography of Baptist studies, which the editors argue has been too insular for far too long. This interdisciplinary approach extends the latest feminist scholarship to embrace racial issues within the denomination, the role that women had in the SBC takeover, Baptist women during the Progressive Era, a couple of essays on the Woman's Missionary Union, Baptist women in feminism (specifically the ERA), Beth Moore, and other topics"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:1621905993