Women preaching revolution : calling for connection in a disconnected time

Summary: Do women preach differently than men? In Women Preaching Revolution Elaine J. Lawless contends that they do. Drawing on her study of more than 150 sermons and extensive interviews with the clergywomen who preached them, Lawless argues that women have changed traditional preaching in ways that reflect their socialization as women and their experiences of being female in America. Many of the women in her study were expected to take courses on the art of preaching as part of their seminary training. Most of them rejected the sermon structure and strategies they were taught in seminary, viewing them as part of a "male" homiletic tradition, and developed styles that celebrate their commitment to connection, relationship, and dialogue.

Record details

ISBN: 9780812231984
ISBN: 0812231988
ISBN: 9781512803822
ISBN: 9780585127002
ISBN: 1512803820
ISBN: 058512700X
Physical Description: remote
Computer data.
1 online resource (xxxiv, 218 pages) : illustrations
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, �1996.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:september.21 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-214) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Spirals within spirals -- " A woman's faith" / Tamsen Whistler -- "Sometimes you just gotta break the rules" / Kim Ryan -- On ethnographic responsibility -- "Making connections" / Maureen Dickmann -- "Making sense of primal stew" / Margaret Ann Crain -- "Musings from a hot blackberry patch" / Gertrude Lindener-Stawski -- Claiming the pulpit -- "Bearing fruit"(I) / Peggy Jeffries -- "Bearing fruit"(II) / Peggy Jeffries -- Collaborative praxis against all odds -- "A greatful heart" / Carol Millspaugh -- "Christ's healing touch" / Carol Millspaugh -- Reading "Women's sermons" -- "An owner's manual for the Bible" / Kim Ryan -- "Scraps from table " / Kim Ryan -- Her stories in bold form -- "Letting go and letting grow" / Kim Ryan -- "The good news according to Ziggy" / Kim Ryan -- A dialogic paradigm -- "When two or more gathered" / Clare Austen -- Putting God's blueprint into action" / Carol Millspaugh -- The gifts of God" / Tamsen Whistler -- "What should I do?" / Margaret Ann Crain.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.