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Holy Women, Wholly Women
Sharing Ministries Through Life Stories and Reciprocal Ethnography
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English
Published/Copyright:
2016
About this book
Lawless collects and interprets the stories of ten women ministers and examines their public and private lives, their ministries, their images of God, and their negotiations of sexuality and the religious life.
Author / Editor information
Lawless Elaine J. :
Elaine J. Lawless is Curators' Professor Emerita of English and Folklore Studies at the University of Missouri.
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"There is a lot going on in this book. . . . [Lawless's] use of scholarly tools from folklore, critical feminist discourse, feminist theology, and ethnography signals the need for multiple interpretive perspectives in understanding the lives of women in ministry, ordained or not."
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Contents
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Preface
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Introduction
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1. Women-Church: Fieldwork and the Group
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2. Hearing Into Speech: Reciprocal Ethnography and Women's Life Stories
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3. Over-Reading the Texts: The Threads that Bind
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4. Key Metaphors: Sub-Texts in Women's Stories
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5. Naked in the Pulpit: Sexuality and Holistic Well-Being
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6. The Dancer and the Dance: Female Images of God
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7. God in Connection: The Message of Women's Ministery
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Afterthoughts: The Never-Ending Story, or the Book in Process
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Index
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December 5, 2016
eBook ISBN:
9781512803846
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Reprint 2016
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256
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9781512803846
Audience(s) for this book
For universities and colleges of further and higher education
