Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS XI
4. PREFACE: AUTHORITY AND DEFINITION XIII
5. Introduction: The Issue of Blood—Reinstating Women into the Tradition 1
6. PART ONE: EARLY CHRISTIANITY
7. 1. Prophetic Power and Women's Authority: The Case of the Gospel of Mary (Magdalene) 21
8. 2. The Early Christian Orans: An Artistic Representation of Women's Liturgical Prayer and Prophecy 42
9. 3. Maria Magdalena: Apostolorum Apostola 57
10. PART TWO: THE MIDDLE AGES
11. 4. The Prostitute-Preacher: Patterns of Polemic against Medieval Waldensian Women Preachers 99
12. 5. The Voice of the Good Women: An Essay on the Pastoral and Sacerdotal Role of Women in the Cathar Church 114
13. 6. The Right of Women to Give Religious Instruction in the Thirteenth Century 134
14. 7. Prophecy and Song: Teaching and Preaching by Medieval Women 146
15. 8. Proclaiming Sanctity through Proscribed Acts: The Case of Rose of Viterbo 159
16. 9. Women's Sermons at the End of the Middle Ages: Texts from the Blessed and Images of the Saints 173
17. PART THREE: SIXTEENTH THROUGH EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES
18. 10. Feminine Exemplars for Reform: Women's Voices in John Foxe's Acts and Monuments 199
19. 11. Preaching or Teaching?: Defining the Ursuline Mission in Seventeenth-Century France 212
20. 12. A Voice for Themselves: Women as Participants in Congregational Discourse in the Eighteenth-Century Moravian Movement 227
21. 13. In a Female Voice: Preaching and Politics in Eighteenth-Century British Quakerism 248
22. PART FOUR: NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES
23. 14. Spirituality and/as Ideology in Black Women's Literature: The Preaching of Maria W. Stewart and Baby Suggs, Holy 267
24. 15. A Chaste and Fervid Eloquence: Catherine Booth and the Ministry of Women in the Salvation Army 288
25. 16. Prophetess of the Spirits: Mother Leaf Anderson and the Black Spiritual Churches of New Orleans 303
26. 17. Transforming the Pulpit: Preaching and Prophecy in the British Women's Suffrage Movement 318
27. Afterword: Voices of the Spirit— Exercising Power, Embracing Responsibility 335
28. CONTRIBUTORS 345
29. INDEX 349