Women and Twentieth-century Protestantism

Women and Twentieth-century Protestantism
Author: Margaret Lamberts Bendroth
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2002
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780252069987

Contributors consider the emergence of Latina Pentecostal clergy in the United States and the success of the Women's Missionary Union of the Southern Baptist Convention in remaining independent of male-dominated denominational structures. Among other topics, the authors discuss Chinese immigrant women who embraced the relative freedom offered by Protestant religion, African American women who assumed religious authority through their historical writing, and the struggles of women faith healers in defining their role amid medical and evangelical professionalism.

In Search of God the Mother

In Search of God the Mother
Author: Lynn E. Roller
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 402
Release: 1999-07-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520210247

This is the first thorough account of the nature and the spread of the cult of Cybele, the Great Mother, and the first to present her worship soberly as a religion rather than sensationally as an orgiastic celebration of self-castrated priest-attendants.

Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century

Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century
Author: Eric L. Haralson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 598
Release: 2014-01-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317763246

With contributions from over 100 scholars, the Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Centry provides essays on the careers, works, and backgrounds of more than 100 nineteenth-century poets. It also provides entries on specialized categories of twentieth-century verse such as hymns, folk ballads, spirituals, Civil War songs, and Native American poetry. Besides presenting essential factual information, each entry amounts to an in-depth critical essay, and includes a bibliography that directs readers to other works by and about a particular poet.