Persistent preachers, 1807-1907 Lloyd, Jennifer M. creator text Electronic books. enk Manchester Manchester University Press 2010 monographic eng

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1 online resource (316 p.) A response to the prominent Methodist historian David Hempton?s call to analyse women?s experience within Methodism, this book is the first to deal with British Methodist women preachers over the entire nineteenth century. The author covers women preachers in Wesley?s lifetime, the reason why some Methodist sects allowed women to preach and others did not, and the experience of Bible Christian and Primitive Methodist female evangelists before 1850. She also describes the many other ways in which women supported their chapel communities. The book also includes discussion of the careers of mid-ce. 9780719078859; 9780719078859; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Women in eighteenth-century Methodism; 2. Women preachers' place in a divided Methodism; 3. The heyday of female itinerancy; 4. Philanthropists, volunteers, fund-raisers, and local preachers; 5. Women as Revivalists; 6. Women in missions at home and abroad; 7. Deaconesses, Sisters of the People, andthe revival of female itinerancy; Afterword; Bibliography; Index. Geschichte 1807-1907 Great Britain Church history 19th century Methodist Church (Great Britain) Clergy History 19th century Methodist women Great Britain History 19th century Methodistische Kirche (Gro€britannien) Predigerin Methodist Church (Great Britain) Clergy History 19th century RELIGION / Christianity / Methodist BX8493 .L66 2009 287.0820941 Lloyd, Jennifer M. Manchester : Manchester University Press, c2010 9781847793232 (electronic bk.) 1847793231 (electronic bk.) http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=1069635 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=515125 http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=1069635 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=515125 EBLCP 121124 20200709055708.0 ocn818847393 eng