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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Religious life & practice
In step with the #MeToo movement and third wave feminism, women's
roles provoke lively debate in today's evangelical sphere. The
Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has a complicated past regarding
this issue, and determining what exactly women's roles in home,
church, and society should be, or even what these roles should be
called, has been a contentious subject. In A Marginal Majority:
Women, Gender, and a Reimagining of Southern Baptists, editors
Elizabeth H. Flowers and Karen K. Seat and eight other contributors
examine the SBC's complex history regarding women and how that
history reshapes our understanding of the denomination and its
contemporary debates. This comprehensive volume starts with women
as SBC fundraisers, moves to the ways they served Southern Baptist
missions, and considers their struggles to find a place at Southern
Baptist seminaries as well as their launching of "teaching" or
"women's" ministries. Along the way, it introduces new
personalities, offers fresh considerations of familiar figures, and
examines the power dynamics of race and class in a denomination
that dominated the South and grew into a national behemoth.
Additionally, the essay collection provides insights into why the
SBC has often politically aligned with the right. Not only did the
denomination become increasingly oriented toward authoritarianism
as it clamped down on evangelical feminism, but, as several
contributors reveal, even as Southern Baptist women sought agency,
they often took it from others. Read together, the chapters strike
a somber tone, challenging any triumphal historiography of the
past. By providing a history of contentious issues from the
nineteenth century to the present day, A Marginal Majority provides
invaluable context for the recurrent struggles women have faced
within the United States' largest Protestant denomination.
Moreover, it points to new directions in the study of American
denominational life and culture.
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