Women, gender and religious cultures in Britain, 1800-1940 / edit ed by Sue Morgan and Jacqueline deVries. - 1st ed. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2010. - ix, 244 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Women, writing and the cre ation of theological cultures / Women and philant hropic cultures / Women, religious ministry and fem ale institution-building / 'With fear and tr embling' : women, preaching and spiritual authority / Professionalising their faith : women, religion and the cultur es of mission and empire / Women, religion an d reform / 'The Word made flesh' : women, religi on and sexual cultures / More than paradoxes to off er : feminism, history and religious cultures / Modernity, heterodoxy and the transformation of religious cultures / Afterword : women, gender and the re-imagining of a 'post-Christian' Britain / Sarah C. Williams -- Julie Melnyk -- Susan Mumm -- Carmen M. Mangion -- Pamela J. Walk er -- Rhonda A. Semple -- Clare Midgley -- Sue Morgan -- Jacqueline deVries - - Joy Dixon -- Sue Morgan and Jacqueline deVries.

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Women in Christianity -- History -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
Women in Christianity -- History -- Great Britain -- 20th century.


Great Britain -- Church history -- 19th century.
Great Britain -- Church history -- 20th century.

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