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aEspecially valuable for religious studies and womenas studies
scholars and sociologists of religion interested in gender and/or
women in religious movements.a
--"Nova Religios"
"It is the trend in scholarship these days to argue that women
find empowerment in restriction. Ingersoll argues, however, that an
alternative interpretation may be that subordinate living may
empower a form of relational power."
--"Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion"
"The feminist resistance [Ingersoll] documents, if able to
assert itself, could have profound consequences not only for
evangelical women but for the rest of us as well, by opening up the
door for a detente in our current culture wars."--"The Women's
Review of Books"
aIngersoll has done the sociology of religion an enormous
service by providing a more nuanced description of the ongoing
personal and institutional struggles of the minority of
conservative Protestants who identify themselves both evangelical
and feminist.a."-- Sally K. Gallagher, Oregon State University
"This highly accessible book should be required reading across
all denominations."
--"Christianity Today"
Evangelical Christian Women draws on two years of ethnographic
research nationwide to shed new light on the gender conflict faced
by women in evangelical Christianity. Julie Ingersoll goes beyond
previous attempts to find avenues of empowerment for fundamentalist
women to offer a more nuanced look at the challenges they face when
they occupy positions of leadership which violate traditional
gender norms. She looks where other studies do not--at women who,
while remaining entrenched in andcommitted to evangelical
Christianity, are also resisting accepted gender roles.
Evangelical Christian Women offers a look at conservative women
who challenge gender norms within their religious traditions, the
fallout they experience as part of the ensuing conflict, and the
significance of the conflict over gender for the development and
character of culture. In the face of a growing number of scholarly
studies of conservative religious women that argue that submission
is somehow "really" empowerment, this book seeks to get at the
other side of the story; to document and explore the experiences of
the women caught in the middle of the conservative Christian
culture war over gender.
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