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Without Benefit of Clergy: Women and the Pastoral Relationship in Nineteenth-Century American Culture

Without Benefit of Clergy: Women and the Pastoral Relationship in Nineteenth-Century American Culture

Gedge, Karin E.
Stout, Harry S.

Hardcover

Series: Religion in America

19th Century United States HistoryGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0195130200
ISBN13: 9780195130201
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Nov 6 2003
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.11 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.76
Language: English
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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