Gender and pentecostal revivalism : making a female ministry in the early twentieth century

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    • Payne, Leah
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Gender and pentecostal revivalism : making a female ministry in the early twentieth century

Leah Payne

(CHARIS: Christianity and renewal--interdisciplinary studies)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

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Bibliography: p. [191]-218

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This innovative volume provides an interdisciplinary, theoretically innovative answer to an enduring question for Pentecostal/charismatic Christianities: how do women lead churches? This study fills this lacuna by examining the leadership and legacy of two architects of the Pentecostal movement - Maria Woodworth-Etter and Aimee Semple McPherson.

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Introduction 1. The Ideal American Minister 2. "Walking Bibles": Narrating Female Pentecostal Ministry 3. "Pants Don't Make Preachers": The Image of a Female Pentecostal Minister 4. "A Glorious Symbol": Building a Female Pentecostal Worship Space 5. "Thunder" and "Sweetness": Authority and Gender in Pentecostal Performance 6. "A Regular Jezebel": Female Ministry, Pentecostal Ministry on Trial Conclusion

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