Women in Christian Traditions
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Women in Christian Traditions

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Women in Christian Traditions

About this book

Uncovers women's participation and impact on defining historical moments and themes of Christian traditions

Women in Christian Traditions offers a concise and accessible examination of the roles women have played in the construction and practice of Christian traditions, revealing the enormous debt that this major world religion owes to its female followers. It recovers forgotten and obscured moments in church history to help us to realize a richer and fuller understanding of Christianity.

This text provides an overview of the complete sweep of Christian history through the lens of feminist scholarship. Yet it also departs from some of the assumptions of that scholarship, raising questions that challenge our thinking about how women have shaped beliefs and practices during two thousand years of church history. Did the emphasis on virginity in the early church empower Christian women? Did the emphasis on marriage during the Reformations of the sixteenth century improve their status? These questions and others have important implications for women in Christianity in particular, and for women in religion in general, since they go to the heart of the human condition.

This work examines themes, movements, and events in their historical contexts and locates churchwomen within the broader developments that have been pivotal in the evolution of Christianity. From the earliest disciples to the latest theologians, from the missionaries to the martyrs, women have been instrumental in keeping the faith alive. Women in Christian Traditions shows how they did so.

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Information

Publisher
NYU Press
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9781479821754

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: Why Study Women in Christian Traditions?
  8. 1. In the Beginning . . . Eve
  9. 2. The Women Disciples in the Kingdom of God
  10. 3. Women and the Conversion of an Empire
  11. 4. Saints, Seers, and Scholars in the Middle Ages
  12. 5. Women Reformed, Women Resistant
  13. 6. Spirit-Filled Women in the Nineteenth Century
  14. 7. Churchwomen on the Margins and in the Mainstream
  15. Conclusion: The Church of Martha and Mary
  16. Questions for Discussion
  17. Notes
  18. Works Cited
  19. For Further Reading
  20. Subject Index
  21. Index to the Bible and New Testament Apocrypha
  22. About the Author