TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lloyd,Jennifer M.
TI  - Women and the shaping of British Methodism: Persistent preachers, 1807-1907
T2  - Gender in History
SN  - 9781847793232
AV  - BX8493 .W664 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - Methodist Church (Great Britain)
KW  - Clergy
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Church history
KW  - Methodist women
KW  - Methodistische Kirche (Gro€britannien)
KW  - Predigerin
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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