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Women Preaching Revolution

Calling for Connection in a Disconnected Time
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2015

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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.

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Elaine J. Lawless is Curators' Professor Emerita of English and Folklore Studies at the University of Missouri.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Acknowledgments

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    Preface: Spirals Within Spirals: The Helix as a Theological Model

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    A Womans Faith

    xxi
    Tamsen Whistler
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    Sometimes You Just Gotta Break the Rules

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  • Introduction: On Ethnographic Responsibility
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    The Writer as Author/ized Storyteller

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    Making Connections

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    Making Sense of Primal Stew

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    Margaret Ann Crain
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    Musings from a Hot Blackberry Patch

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    Gertrude Lindener-Stawski
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  • Chapter 1. Claiming the Pulpit
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    Hearing Women Speak

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    Bearing Fruit (I)

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    Peggy Jeffries
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    Bearing Fruit (II)

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  • Chapter 2. Collaborative Praxis Against All Odds
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    My Journal Remembers

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    A Grateful Heart

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    Christs Healing Touch

    76
    Carol Millspaugh
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  • Chapter 3. "Reading" Women′s Sermons
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    Reciprocal Ethnography at Work

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    An Owners Manual for the Bible

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    Scraps from the Table

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  • Chapter 4. Her Stories in Bold Form
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    Narrative in Women′s Sermons

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    Letting Go and Letting Grow

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    The Good News According to Ziggy

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  • Chapter 5. A Dialogic Paradigm
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    What Women Bring to Christian Religion

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    When Two or More Are Gathered

    177
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    Putting Gods Blueprint into Action

    185
    Carol Millspaugh
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    The Gifts of God

    191
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    What Should I Do?

    198
    Margaret Ann Crain
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    Bibliography

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    Index

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December 18, 2015
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9781512803822
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https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512803822
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Keywords for this book
Religion; Gender Studies; Religious Studies
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For universities and colleges of further and higher education
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