Episcopal Women : Gender, Spirituality, and Commitment in an American Mainline Denomination.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- I: Historical Perspectives -- 1. Woman's Work and Woman's Calling in the Episcopal Church: Chicago, 1880-1989 -- 2. Episcopal Women as Community Leaders: Galveston, 1900-1989 -- 3. Women and the Parallel Church: A View from Congregations -- 4. Beyond the Parallel Church: Strategies of Separatism and Integration in the Governing Councils of the Episcopal Church -- II: Contemporary Voices -- 5. Gender and Generations in Congregations -- 6. Different Voices: African American Women in the Episcopal Church -- 7. Women's Works of Devotion: Feasts, Fairs, and Festivities -- 8. A Woman's Journey toward Priesthood: An Autobiographical Study from the 1950s through the 1980s -- III: Images of a New Church -- 9. Ordained Women in the Episcopal Church: Their Impact on the Work and Structure of the Clergy -- 10. The Anthropology of Vitality and Decline: The Episcopal Church in a Changing Society -- 11. Theory, Theology, and Episcopal Churchwomen -- Afterword: Episcopal Women in the Context of American Religious Life -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

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