Œuvres de Ann Braude
Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America, Second Edition (1989) 144 exemplaires
Gendering Religion and Politics: Untangling Modernities (2009) — Directeur de publication — 4 exemplaires
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- Braude, Ann Deborah
Braude, Ann D. - Date de naissance
- 1955-07-04
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Études
- Vassar College (AB | 1977)
University of Chicago (MA | 1978)
Yale University (MPhil | 1983)
Yale University (PhD | 1987) - Professions
- university lecturer
professor - Organisations
- American Historical Association
American Academy of Religion
American Studies Association
Organization of American Historians
Women Historians of the Mid-West
Harvard University (tout afficher 8)
Carleton College
Macalester College
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- Membres
- 229
- Popularité
- #98,340
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 18
There's a section on Harriet Beecher Stowe, daughter of popular evangelist Lyman Beecher. In a family with 11 children, all seven Beecher sons became ministers. Her father lamented the fact that Harriet, his brightest child, was not a boy, since it would have meant even greater glory for himself. Hoo, boy, them's fightin' words! She showed HIM!! Her novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, asked," how could any woman condone a system that sold into slavery other women's children?" (She wrote the book after her own infant died.) By appealing to women's humanity, Stowe changed the way Americans looked at slavery, as a barbaric offense to God and the human fmaily.
We also meet Mary Baker Eddy; Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah (the Jewish women's humanitarian organization), the WCTU, and American nuns. Their religious work often coincided with the fight for women's suffrage, the right to female self-autonomy, and the passage of the ERA (which, by the way, has STILL not been passed.) At least our church is a beneficiary of this struggle -- our pastor is female. Despite the fact that religious hierarchies are still predominantly male, America has a rich religious female heritage which only now is being recognized as a treasure of great value to the ethical fabric of American faith, bravery and courage.… (plus d'informations)