Holy Boldness: Women Preachers' Autobiographies and the Sanctified Self

Holy Boldness: Women Preachers' Autobiographies and the Sanctified Self
ISBN-10
1572333103
ISBN-13
9781572333109
Series
Holy Boldness
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
304
Language
English
Published
2004-05
Publisher
Univ. of Tennessee Press
Author
Susie C. Stanley

Description

In Holy Boldness, Susie C. Stanley provides a comprehensive analysis of spiritual autobiographies by thirty-four American Wesleyan/Holiness women preachers, published between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. While a few of these women, primarily African Americans, have been added to the canon of American women's autobiography, Stanley argues for the expansion of the canon to incorporate the majority of the women in her study. She reveals how these empowered women carried out public ministries on behalf of evangelism and social justice. Using the tools of feminist theory and autobiographical analysis in addition to historical and theological interpretation, Stanley traces a trajectory of Christian women's autobiographies and introduces many previously unknown spiritual autobiographies that will expand our understanding of Christian spirituality in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America.

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