Women and the landscape of American higher education
Subtitle: Wesleyan holiness and Pentecostal founders
By: by Abraham Ruelas
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Eugene, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9781606088692
Description: "Since Wesleyan Holiness and Pentecostalism are the foundations of my faith journey, I set out to put together the 'great cloud of [women] witnesses' (Heb 12:1) from these two faith traditions who founded Christian colleges. ... Even if manyof the Christian higher education that these women founded no longer exist, or have been merged into other institutions, it is of paramount importance to honor their life journeys in the service of God."--Author's preface.
Notes: Expanded version of a paper presented at the 2009 conference of the Wesleyan Theological Society and the Society for Pentecostal Studies.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-162) and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Wesleyan Holiness women : early pioneers. Founded by the philanthropy of a woman : Eliza Garrett; title: Her vision, his name : Emma Dryer; title: "Archbishop of deaconesses" : Lucy Rider Meyer; title: It all began as a one-room schoolhouse : Fannie Suddarth; title: The women of Azuza Street / Philena B. Hadley, Mary A. Hill, M. Anna Draper, Bertha Theresa Pinkham, Matilda W. Atkinson, and Elizabeth B. Harper; title: More than deaconesses : Iva Vennard; title: Praying together to convince a reluctant founding President / Bible College Prayer Circle; title: You will minister in this country : Mary Lee Cagle; title: From Tuesday meetings to a Bible college : Mattie Hoke; title: Mattie's children, Mattie's school; title: Mattie Mallory; title: So, I'll appoint myself a bishop : Alma White; title: The general of the Kentucky Mountains : Lela McConnell; title: Now is the time to open the school : Ruth Kerr; title: pt. 2. Pentecostal women : carrying the torch forward. Little general of the Faith healing, Holiness and Pentecostal movement : Carrie Judd Montgomery; title: Providing "educational fitness" to those called by God : Elizabeth V. Baker; title: Following in the footsteps of great grandma and mom : Virginia E. Moss; title: Her tongue talked fluently in a language she had never learned : Minnie Tingley Draper; title: Going where she thought a man could go : Nora Chambers; title: Suffering at the hands of revisionist historians : Mary Craig; title: A gifted and flamboyant founder : Aimee Semple McPherson; title: Operating by the faith principle : Christine Amelia Gibson; title: Affirming indigenous leadership, almost : Alice Luce; title: Fulfilling the vision of the founder : Mary Keith; title: Answering God's call in the middle of the Detroit river : Bebe Pattern; title: That they may reach their own tribes in the native language : Alta Washburn; title: The mantle of God is upon her : Violet Kiteley; title: She guarded the secret in her heart : Freda Lindsay.