Women and the shaping of British Methodism: Persistent preachers, 1807-1907
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.The author covers women preachers in Wesley?s lifetime, the reason why some Me...
| Summary: | 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.The author covers women preachers in Wesley?s lifetime, the reason why some Methodist sects allowed women to preach and others did not, and the experience of Bible Christian and Primitive Methodist female evangelists before 1850. She also describes the many other ways in which women supported their chapel communities. The book also includes discussion of the careers of mid-ce |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (316 p) |
| ISBN: | 0719078857 |