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(0)Susan Hill Lindley
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Susan Hill Lindley presents the story of women and religion in America from the colonial period through the mid-1990s. Women throughout American history have repeatedly been accused of "stepping out of their places" as many have fought for more rewarding roles in the church and society. In this book, Lindley demonstrates that just as religion in the traditional sense has influenced the lives of American women through its institutions, values, and...
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Readers can find in this book multiple women in a variety of religious traditions and beginning sources, primary and secondary, for further research. But this handbook offers more than that. It includes women who until recently have been lost to memory even within their own communities and makes it impossible to ignore the prodigious extent to which women participated creatively in their traditions. Implicitly it argues the case that American religious...