Description: Without Benefit of Clergy : Women and the Pastoral Relationship in Nineteenth-Century American Culture, Hardcover by Gedge, Karin E.; Stout, Harry S. (EDT), ISBN 0195130200, ISBN-13 9780195130201, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK The common view of the nineteenth-century pastoral relationship--found in both contemporary popular accounts and 20th-century scholarship--was that women and clergymen formed a natural alliance and enjoyed a particular influence over each other. In Without Benefit of Clergy, Karin Gedge tests this thesis by examining the pastoral relationship from the perspective of the minister, the female parishioner, and the larger culture. The question that troubled religious women seeking counsel, says Gedge, was: would their minister respect them, help them, honor them? Surprisingly, she finds, the answer was frequently negative. Gedge supports her conclusion with evidence from a wide range of previously untapped primary sources including pastoral manuals, seminary students' and pastors' journals, women's diaries and letters, pamphlets, sentimental and sensational novels, and The Scarlet Letter.
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Book Title: Without Benefit of Clergy : Women and the Pastoral Relationship i
Number of Pages: 298 Pages
Publication Name: Without Benefit of Clergy: Women and the Pastoral Relationship in Nineteenth-Century American Culture
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Item Height: 243 mm
Subject: Zoology, History
Publication Year: 2003
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 595 g
Author: Karin E. Gedge
Item Width: 164 mm
Series: Religion in America
Format: Hardcover
