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Without Benefit of Clergy

Women and the Pastoral Relationship in Nineteenth-century American Culture

by Karin E. Gedge (assistant Professor Of History, Assistant Professor Of History, Westchester University)

  • Hardback
  • 304 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.3 cm

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The common view of the nineteenth-century pastoral relationship-found in both contemporary popular accounts and 20th-century scholarship-was that women and clergymen formed a natural alliance and enjoyed a particular influence over each other. In Without Benefit of Clergy, Karin Gedge tests this thesis by examining the pastoral relationship from the perspective of the minister, the female parishioner, and the larger culture. The question that troubled religious women seeking counsel, says Gedge, was: would their minister respect them, help them, honor them? Surprisingly, she finds, the answer was frequently negative. Gedge supports her conclusion with evidence from a wide range of previously untapped primary sources including pastoral manuals, seminary students' and pastors' journals, women's diaries and letters, pamphlets, sentimental and sensational novels, and The Scarlet Letter.
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  • Author

    Karin E. Gedge (assistant Professor Of History, Assistant Professor Of History, Westchester University)

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    November 2003

  • Weight

    591g

  • Page Count

    304

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780195130201

  • ISBN-10

    0195130200

  • Eden Code

    1146766

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