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1 online resource (xv, 391 pages) |
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Introduction: Putting Together the Puzzle of Canadian Women's Christian Work / Elizabeth Gillan Muir and Marilyn Fardig Whiteley -- 1. 'So Many Crosses to Bear': The Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph and the Tracadie Leper Hospital, 1868-1910 / Laurie C.C. Stanley -- 2. Christian Perfection and Service to Neighbours: The Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Toronto, 1851-1920 / Elizabeth Smyth -- 3. Nonconformity and Nonresistance: What Did It Mean to Mennonite Women? / Marlene Epp -- 4. Sharing a Vision: Maritime Baptist Women Educate for Mission, 1870-1920 / H. Miriam Ross -- 5. Two-thirds of the Revenue: Presbyterian Women and Native Indian Missions / John Webster Grant -- 6. 'Let the Women Keep Silence': Women Missionary Preaching in British Columbia, 1860s-1940s / Margaret Whitehead -- 7. Two Sexes Warring in the Bosom of a Single Mission Station: Feminism in the Canadian Methodist Japan Mission, 1881-1895 / Rosemary R. Gagan |
| Summary |
Canadian religious history has been written with relatively little reference to the role of women. Throughout the years, the church itself has intensified this problem by restricting the options of women - excluding them from valued roles and senior positions. In the past, Christian women were obliged to find alternative avenues for the expression of their faith and, as a result, their experience has been unusually rich and varied. This pioneering anthology traces the history of Canadian women in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Protestant traditions from the early days through the 1960s |
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Seventeen Canadian scholars tell the stories of individuals who have worked in traditional and nontraditional roles, alone and as members of groups, both within and outside church structures. All of the articles present new or little-known material, relating the faith, determination, and inventiveness of women whose experience has so far been overlooked. The volume includes an introductory overview of women's church work as well as a comprehensive bibliography of papers and books published about women in the Christian church in Canada, both in English and in French. The incorporation of feminist analysis and an emphasis on gender issues set this collection apart from all other studies of Canadian church history. A unique and valuable book, it not only fills a void in the chronicles of religion, it adds an important new dimension to Canadian history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Women in church work -- Canada -- History
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Women in Christianity -- Canada -- History
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Christian women -- Canada -- History
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
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HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
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Christian women
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Women in Christianity
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Women in church work
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Kirche
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Frau
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Kongress
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Canada
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Kanada
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Muir, Elizabeth Gillan, 1934- editor.
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Whiteley, Marilyn Färdig, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781442672840 |
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1442672846 |
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1282045725 |
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9781282045729 |
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0802006698 |
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9780802006691 |
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