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The Preacher's Wife - The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities (Hardcover)
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The Preacher's Wife - The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities (Hardcover)
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens
for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved, a fascinating look at the
world of Christian women celebrities Since the 1970s, an important
new figure has appeared on the center stage of American
evangelicalism-the celebrity preacher's wife. Although most
evangelical traditions bar women from ordained ministry, many women
have carved out unofficial positions of power in their husbands'
spiritual empires or their own ministries. The biggest stars-such
as Beth Moore, Joyce Meyer, and Victoria Osteen-write bestselling
books, grab high ratings on Christian television, and even preach.
In this engaging book, Kate Bowler, an acclaimed historian of
religion and the author of the bestselling memoir Everything
Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved, offers a
sympathetic and revealing portrait of megachurch women celebrities,
showing how they must balance the demands of celebrity culture and
conservative, male-dominated faiths. Whether standing alone or next
to their husbands, the leading women of megaministry play many
parts: the preacher, the homemaker, the talent, the counselor, and
the beauty. Boxed in by the high expectations of modern Christian
womanhood, they follow and occasionally subvert the visible and
invisible rules that govern the lives of evangelical women, earning
handsome rewards or incurring harsh penalties. They must be pretty,
but not immodest; exemplary, but not fake; vulnerable to sin, but
not deviant. And black celebrity preachers' wives carry a special
burden of respectability. But despite their influence and wealth,
these women are denied the most important symbol of spiritual
power-the pulpit. The story of women who most often started off as
somebody's wife and ended up as everyone's almost-pastor, The
Preacher's Wife is a compelling account of women's search for
spiritual authority in the age of celebrity.
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