Women and the shaping of British Methodism Persistent preachers, 1807-1907.

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Lloyd, Jennifer M [Author]

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text

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computer

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online resource

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9781847793232

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Electronic Books.

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BX8493 .W664 2010

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Subject: A response to the prominent Methodist historian David Hempton?s call to analyse women?s experience within Methodism, this book is the first to deal with British Methodist women preachers over the entire nineteenth century. The author covers women preachers in Wesley?s lifetime, the reason why some Methodist sects allowed women to preach and others did not, and the experience of Bible Christian and Primitive Methodist female evangelists before 1850. She also describes the many other ways in which women supported their chapel communities. The book also includes discussion of the careers of mid-ce.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	BX8493 .66 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn818847393

Includes bibliographies and index.

9780719078859; 9780719078859; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Women in eighteenth-century Methodism; 2. Women preachers' place in a divided Methodism; 3. The heyday of female itinerancy; 4. Philanthropists, volunteers, fund-raisers, and local preachers; 5. Women as Revivalists; 6. Women in missions at home and abroad; 7. Deaconesses, Sisters of the People, andthe revival of female itinerancy; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.

A response to the prominent Methodist historian David Hempton?s call to analyse women?s experience within Methodism, this book is the first to deal with British Methodist women preachers over the entire nineteenth century. The author covers women preachers in Wesley?s lifetime, the reason why some Methodist sects allowed women to preach and others did not, and the experience of Bible Christian and Primitive Methodist female evangelists before 1850. She also describes the many other ways in which women supported their chapel communities. The book also includes discussion of the careers of mid-ce.

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