Format:
Online-Ressource (326 p)
ISBN:
9780813124766
Content:
How can women find strength, courage, and motivation in a religious denomination that believes in the necessity of a wife's submission to her husband? In God Speaks to Us, Too, Susan M. Shaw shows that Southern Baptist women are surprisingly more complex and rebellious than outside observers might think they are. She presents the views of more than 150 women, often using their own words, and finds in them an unshakable belief that God speaks as directly to them as to any pastor or denominational leader. Although these women respect their leaders and are influenced by them, ultimately they rec
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents ; Preface; Introduction: Raised Right--The Making of Southern Baptist Identity; Being Baptist; Southern Baptist Identity; Gathering the Stories; The Clique; Other Participants; Making Sense of All the Stories; Making Meaning and Making Identity; Raised Right; Sunbeams, Sword Drills, and Age-Graded Curriculum; Race, Place, and Generation; Soul Competency; 1. Just as I Am: Southern Baptist Womens Experiences of Salvation and Baptism; Southern Baptists and Conversion; Believer's Baptism by Immersion
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2. The B-I-B-L-E: Southern Baptist Women and the BibleSword Drills and Memory Verses; The Right to Interpret Scripture; Biblical Inerrancy and the Southern Baptist Controversy; What Does the Bible Say about Women?; What Do Women Say about the Bible?; The Bible and Women's Sense of Self; 3. Casseroles and Covered Dishes: Southern Baptist Women, Hospitality, and Friendship; Southern Womanhood; Southern Hospitality; Community and Women's Friendships; 4. Red and Yellow, Black and White: The Dynamics of Race in the Lives of Southern Baptist Women; I Never Knew Any Different; Mixed Messages
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We Would Play with the ChildrenWe All Realized that It Was Wrong; Keeping the Cars Coupled; Our Relation to Persons of African Descent Has Been Less than Ideal; Becoming Antiracist; My Identity Is in Christ; 5. We've a Story to Tell: Southern Baptist Women and Ministry; Lottie Moon and Annie Armstrong; Girls' Auxiliary, Forward Steps, and Acteens; Serving Southern Baptists; Rumblings; The Mother Seminary; When Women Preach; Backlash; Survival Strategies; New Generations; 6. Gracious Submission: Southern Baptist Women and the Family; The Centrality of Family; Gender and Hierarchy
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The Neck that Turns the HeadThe Dark Side of Male Dominance and Female Submission; Egalitarian Relationships; Family and Ministry; Wife, Mother, and Minister; All Mothers Are Working Mothers; Women on Their Own; Invisible and Unspeakable; 7. Am Woman: Southern Baptist Women and Feminism; The Generational Divide; Of Course Im a Feminist; I'm Not a Feminist, But. . .; Bra-Burning Militants and Other Mythical Feminist Beasts; Untroubling Gender: Southern Baptist Women's Construction of Gender; 8. Competent before God: Southern Baptist Women and Soul Competency; Being Baptist
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The Priesthood of BelieversI Can Read It for Myself; Autonomy of the Local Church; Democratic Church Governance; Separation of Church and State; The Cooperative Program; Cast of Characters; Notes; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813159850
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813124766
Additional Edition:
Print version God Speaks to Us, Too : Southern Baptist Women on Church, Home, and Society
Language:
English
Keywords:
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