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Some wild visions : autobiographies by itinerant female preachers in 19th-century America

Author: Elizabeth Elkin Grammer
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Series: Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This book is a study of seven autobiographies by women who defied the domestic ideology of nineteenth-century America by serving as itinerant preachers. Literally and culturally homeless, all of them used their autobiographies to construct, from an array of materials, plausible identities as women and Christians in an age that found them hard to understand.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Elizabeth Elkin Grammer
ISBN: 0195139615 9780195139617
OCLC Number: 49031033
Description: x, 211 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series Title: Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
Responsibility: Elizabeth Elkin Grammer.
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This book is a study of seven autobiographies by women who defied the domestic ideology of nineteenth-century America by serving as itinerant preachers. Literally and culturally homeless, all of them used their autobiographies to construct, from an array of materials, plausible identities as women and Christians in an age that found them hard to understand.

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