Margaret Bendroth

Broschiertes Buch

Good and Mad

Mainline Protestant Churchwomen, 1920-1980

Beschreibung

This lively historical account explains not just how feminism finally took root in American mainline churches, but why the change was so long in coming. Through its complex examination of the intersections of faith, gender, and anger at injustice, Good and Mad will be invaluable to anyone interested in the history of gender and religion in America.

Autor

Margaret Bendroth is a historian who served over 15 years as Executive Director of the Congregational Library and Archives. She received her Ph.D. in American history from Johns Hopkins University and worked as a Professor of History at Calvin College from 1998 to 2004. Over the course of her career, she has been president of the American Society of Church History (2015) and authored and edited eight books and numerous articles on modern American religion, including The Last Puritans: Mainline Protestants and the Power of the Past (2015), Fundamentalists and the City: Conflict and Division in Boston's Churches, 1885-1950 (2005), and Fundamentalism and Gender, 1875 to the Present (1993).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780197819753
• ISBN-10: 0197819753
• Artikelnr.: 74312643