This volume is the first comprehensive overview of women, gender
and religious change in modern Britain spanning from the
evangelical revival of the early 1800s to interwar debates over
women's roles and ministry.
This collection of pieces by key scholars combines
cross-disciplinary insights from history, gender studies, theology,
literature, religious studies, sexuality and postcolonial studies.
The book takes a thematic approach, providing students and scholars
with a clear and comparative examination of ten significant areas
of cultural activity that both shaped, and were shaped by women's
religious beliefs and practices: family life, literary and
theological discourses, philanthropic networks, sisterhoods and
deaconess institutions, revivals and preaching ministry, missionary
organisations, national and transnational political reform
networks, sexual ideas and practices, feminist communities, and
alternative spiritual traditions. Together, the volume challenges
widely-held truisms about the increasingly private and domesticated
nature of faith, the feminisation of religion and the relationship
between secularisation and modern life.
Including case studies, further reading lists, and a survey of
the existing scholarship, and with a British rather than
Anglo-centric approach, this is an ideal book for anyone interested
in women's religious experiences across the nineteeth and twentieth
centuries.
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