Author: Katie Lauve-Moon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197527574
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
When organizations are committed to gender equality, what gets in the way of their achieving it? How and why do well-intentioned people end up reinforcing sexism? Katie Lauve-Moon examines these questions by focusing on religious congregations that separated from their mainline denomination in order to support women's equal leadership. In Preacher Woman, Lauve-Moon concentrates on congregations affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF). Women are enrolling in Baptist seminaries at almost equal rates as men and CBF identifies the equal leadership of women as a core component of its collective identity, yet only five percent of CBF congregations employ women as solo senior pastors. Preacher Woman explores how congregations can be committed to ideas of gender parity while still falling short in practice. Lauve-Moon investigates how institutional sexism is upheld through both unconscious and conscious biases. In doing so, she demonstrates that addressing issues of sexism and gender inequality within organizations must extend beyond good intentions and inclusive policies.
Preacher Woman
Author: Katie Lauve-Moon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197527574
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
When organizations are committed to gender equality, what gets in the way of their achieving it? How and why do well-intentioned people end up reinforcing sexism? Katie Lauve-Moon examines these questions by focusing on religious congregations that separated from their mainline denomination in order to support women's equal leadership. In Preacher Woman, Lauve-Moon concentrates on congregations affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF). Women are enrolling in Baptist seminaries at almost equal rates as men and CBF identifies the equal leadership of women as a core component of its collective identity, yet only five percent of CBF congregations employ women as solo senior pastors. Preacher Woman explores how congregations can be committed to ideas of gender parity while still falling short in practice. Lauve-Moon investigates how institutional sexism is upheld through both unconscious and conscious biases. In doing so, she demonstrates that addressing issues of sexism and gender inequality within organizations must extend beyond good intentions and inclusive policies.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197527574
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
When organizations are committed to gender equality, what gets in the way of their achieving it? How and why do well-intentioned people end up reinforcing sexism? Katie Lauve-Moon examines these questions by focusing on religious congregations that separated from their mainline denomination in order to support women's equal leadership. In Preacher Woman, Lauve-Moon concentrates on congregations affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF). Women are enrolling in Baptist seminaries at almost equal rates as men and CBF identifies the equal leadership of women as a core component of its collective identity, yet only five percent of CBF congregations employ women as solo senior pastors. Preacher Woman explores how congregations can be committed to ideas of gender parity while still falling short in practice. Lauve-Moon investigates how institutional sexism is upheld through both unconscious and conscious biases. In doing so, she demonstrates that addressing issues of sexism and gender inequality within organizations must extend beyond good intentions and inclusive policies.
Margaret Mead
Author: Elesha J. Coffman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192571877
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
For 50 years, Margaret Mead told Americans how cultures worked, and Americans listened. While serving as a curator at the American Museum of Natural History and as a professor of anthropology at Columbia University, she published dozens of books and hundreds of articles, scholarly and popular, on topics ranging from adolescence to atomic energy, Polynesian kinship networks to kindergarten, national morale to marijuana. At her death in 1978, she was the most famous anthropologist in the world and one of the best-known women in America. She had amply achieved her goal, as she described it to an interviewer in 1975, "To have lived long enough to be of some use." As befits her prominence, Mead has had many biographers, but there is a curious hole at the center of these accounts: Mead's faith. Margaret Mead: A Twentieth-Century Faith introduces a side of its subject that few people know. It re-narrates her life and reinterprets her work, highlighting religious concerns. Following Mead's lead, it ranges across areas that are typically kept academically distinct: anthropology, gender studies, intellectual history, church history, and theology. It is a portrait of a mind at work, pursuing a unique vision of the good of the world.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192571877
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
For 50 years, Margaret Mead told Americans how cultures worked, and Americans listened. While serving as a curator at the American Museum of Natural History and as a professor of anthropology at Columbia University, she published dozens of books and hundreds of articles, scholarly and popular, on topics ranging from adolescence to atomic energy, Polynesian kinship networks to kindergarten, national morale to marijuana. At her death in 1978, she was the most famous anthropologist in the world and one of the best-known women in America. She had amply achieved her goal, as she described it to an interviewer in 1975, "To have lived long enough to be of some use." As befits her prominence, Mead has had many biographers, but there is a curious hole at the center of these accounts: Mead's faith. Margaret Mead: A Twentieth-Century Faith introduces a side of its subject that few people know. It re-narrates her life and reinterprets her work, highlighting religious concerns. Following Mead's lead, it ranges across areas that are typically kept academically distinct: anthropology, gender studies, intellectual history, church history, and theology. It is a portrait of a mind at work, pursuing a unique vision of the good of the world.
The Gospel of the Working Class
Author: Erik S. Gellman
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 025209333X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
In this exceptional dual biography and cultural history, Erik S. Gellman and Jarod Roll trace the influence of two southern activist preachers, one black and one white, who used their ministry to organize the working class in the 1930s and 1940s across lines of gender, race, and geography. Owen Whitfield and Claude Williams, along with their wives Zella Whitfield and Joyce Williams, drew on their bedrock religious beliefs to stir ordinary men and women to demand social and economic justice in the eras of the Great Depression, New Deal, and Second World War. Williams and Whitfield preached a working-class gospel rooted in the American creed that hard, productive work entitled people to a decent standard of living. Gellman and Roll detail how the two preachers galvanized thousands of farm and industrial workers for the Southern Tenant Farmers Union and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. They also link the activism of the 1930s and 1940s to that of the 1960s and emphasize the central role of the ministers' wives, with whom they established the People's Institute for Applied Religion. This detailed narrative illuminates a cast of characters who became the two couples' closest allies in coordinating a complex network of activists that transcended Jim Crow racial divisions, blurring conventional categories and boundaries to help black and white workers make better lives. In chronicling the shifting contexts of the actions of Whitfield and Williams, The Gospel of the Working Class situates Christian theology within the struggles of some of America's most downtrodden workers, transforming the dominant narratives of the era and offering a fresh view of the promise and instability of religion and civil rights unionism.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 025209333X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
In this exceptional dual biography and cultural history, Erik S. Gellman and Jarod Roll trace the influence of two southern activist preachers, one black and one white, who used their ministry to organize the working class in the 1930s and 1940s across lines of gender, race, and geography. Owen Whitfield and Claude Williams, along with their wives Zella Whitfield and Joyce Williams, drew on their bedrock religious beliefs to stir ordinary men and women to demand social and economic justice in the eras of the Great Depression, New Deal, and Second World War. Williams and Whitfield preached a working-class gospel rooted in the American creed that hard, productive work entitled people to a decent standard of living. Gellman and Roll detail how the two preachers galvanized thousands of farm and industrial workers for the Southern Tenant Farmers Union and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. They also link the activism of the 1930s and 1940s to that of the 1960s and emphasize the central role of the ministers' wives, with whom they established the People's Institute for Applied Religion. This detailed narrative illuminates a cast of characters who became the two couples' closest allies in coordinating a complex network of activists that transcended Jim Crow racial divisions, blurring conventional categories and boundaries to help black and white workers make better lives. In chronicling the shifting contexts of the actions of Whitfield and Williams, The Gospel of the Working Class situates Christian theology within the struggles of some of America's most downtrodden workers, transforming the dominant narratives of the era and offering a fresh view of the promise and instability of religion and civil rights unionism.
New International Encyclopedia
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
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The New International Encyclopædia
Author: Frank Moore Colby
Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
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The Sabbath Recorder
The New International Encyclopaedia
Author: Frank Moore Colby
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
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A Short History of Italy (476-1900)
Author: Henry Dwight Sedgwick
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Henry Dwight Sedgwick's volume A Short History of Italy is an invaluable book on Italian history, taking a reader from the fall of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the twentieth century. The author gives an insight into the main points of Italian history like the decline and fall of the Western Roman Empire, the conquests at the hands of the Eastern Romans (Byzantines), the Normans, and other peoples, the rise of the Papacy, and the intriguing ministry of Francis of Assisi, the rise of Venice as a prominent medieval power, the Renaissance in all of its glory in science and the arts, the slow and steady movement towards Italian nationalism, the rise of the mafia in Southern Italy and Sicily and much more.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Henry Dwight Sedgwick's volume A Short History of Italy is an invaluable book on Italian history, taking a reader from the fall of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the twentieth century. The author gives an insight into the main points of Italian history like the decline and fall of the Western Roman Empire, the conquests at the hands of the Eastern Romans (Byzantines), the Normans, and other peoples, the rise of the Papacy, and the intriguing ministry of Francis of Assisi, the rise of Venice as a prominent medieval power, the Renaissance in all of its glory in science and the arts, the slow and steady movement towards Italian nationalism, the rise of the mafia in Southern Italy and Sicily and much more.
The Life of Willbur Fisk, D.D.
Author: Joseph Holdich
Publisher:
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Category : Educators
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Category : Educators
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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The English Peasant
Author: Richard Heath
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Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
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Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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