From Preachers to Suffragists: Woman's Rights and Religious Conviction in the Lives of Three Nineteenth-Century - Softcover

Zink-Sawyer, Beverly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0664226159 ISBN 13: 9780664226152

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003

Synopsis

The women's rights movement in nineteenth-century America has primarily been interpreted as a secular movement. However, in From Preachers to Suffragists, Beverly Zink-Sawyer examines the lives of three nineteenth-century clergywomen--Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Olympia Brown, and Anna Howard Shaw--who, seeing their calling to the suffrage movement as an extension of their call to ministry, left the parish to join and become leaders in the movement. Zink-Sawyer tells the stories of their courageous lives, quoting their sermons and writings and tracing their struggles before and after ordination. In doing so, she persuasively demonstrates the vital importance of these leaders--of their religious rhetoric and their theological leadership--in shaping the movement as a whole, reclaiming its religious roots and making a major, even corrective, contribution to American history.

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About the Author

Beverly Zink-Sawyer is Samuel W. Newell, Jr. Professor of Preaching and Worship at Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, Virginia. The editor of the Abingdon Women's Preaching Annual for three consecutive years, she is the author of From Preachers to Suffragists as well as numerous articles, book reviews, and published sermons.

Edition details

• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0664226159
• ISBN 13: 9780664226152
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200