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Emma Newman - A Frontier Woman Minister (Hardcover, 1st ed) Loot Price: R584
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Emma Newman - A Frontier Woman Minister (Hardcover, 1st ed): Randi Jones Walker

Emma Newman - A Frontier Woman Minister (Hardcover, 1st ed)

Randi Jones Walker

Series: Women and Gender in Religion

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A devout Congregationalist, Emma Newman felt called to preach and perform pastoral work in the frontier regions of Illinois and Kansas following the Civil War. She overcame obstacles to secure a license to preach, obtain formal ordination, and establish a congregation of her own.

In this book, Randi Walker illustrates how Emma Newman's life and career took her to an "American West" that was, in general, more receptive to women's professional aspirations. The vast, sparsely populated landscape modified traditional gender roles and relationships and demanded of all its inhabitants an entrepreneurial spirit. Social conventions restricting women's religious activity were less firmly entrenched than in the East. And because the geography isolated men and women, minister from denomination, and minister from her people, it provided freedom for women to engage in pastoral work and break the barriers keeping them from the pulpit and ordination.

Walker draws on Emma Newman's diaries and correspondence and studies American frontier religion to chart Newman's career and steady persistence.

General

Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Women and Gender in Religion
Release date: December 2000
First published: November 2000
Authors: Randi Jones Walker
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Edition: 1st ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-0674-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Christian institutions & organizations > Christian ministry & pastoral activity
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Calvinist, Reformed & Presbyterian Churches > General
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Biography > Historical, political & military
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Christian institutions & organizations > Christian ministry & pastoral activity
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Calvinist, Reformed & Presbyterian Churches > General
Books > Christianity > Christian institutions & organizations > Christian ministry & pastoral activity
Books > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Calvinist, Reformed & Presbyterian Churches
LSN: 0-8156-0674-5
Barcode: 9780815606741

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