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Gender and Pentecostal Revivalism

Making a Female Ministry in the Early Twentieth Century

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Leah Payne
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  • Winner of the Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies Book Award

Part of the book series: Christianity and Renewal - Interdisciplinary Studies (CHARIS)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Leah Payne
    Pages 1-18

  3. “Truly Manly”: The Ideal American Minister

    • Leah Payne
    Pages 19-37

  4. “Walking Bibles”: Narrating Female Pentecostal Ministry

    • Leah Payne
    Pages 39-62

  5. “Pants Don’t Make Preachers”: The Image of a Female Pentecostal Minister

    • Leah Payne
    Pages 63-80

  6. “A Glorious Symbol”: Building a Female Pentecostal Worship Space

    • Leah Payne
    Pages 81-94

  7. “Thunder” and “Sweetness”: Authority and Gender in Pentecostal Performance

    • Leah Payne
    Pages 95-121

  8. “A Regular Jezebel”: Female Ministry, Pentecostal Ministry on Trial

    • Leah Payne
    Pages 123-129

  9. Conclusion

    • Leah Payne
    Pages 131-138

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 139-223
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About this book

This innovative volume provides an interdisciplinary, theoretically innovative answer to an enduring question for Pentecostal/charismatic Christianities: how do women lead churches? This study fills this lacuna by examining the leadership and legacy of two architects of the Pentecostal movement - Maria Woodworth-Etter and Aimee Semple McPherson.

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“In the face of a lack of in-depth studies on these intriguing religious figures, the book aims to fill the gap in existing religious and gender studies scholarship, offering a theoretically-based, interdisciplinary study. … a fascinating historical journey through the process of establishing legitimacy as a woman pastor in the early twentieth century. Therefore, this book represents a valuable contribution to the history of American revivalism, religion and gender studies and to the further research of female evangelists.” (Aleksandra Djurić Milovanović, Religion & Gender, Vol. 7 (2), 2017)

About the author

Leah Payne is Assistant Professor of Church History at George Fox University, USA.

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