Emma Newman
Subtitle: A Frontier Woman Minister (Women and Gender in North American Religions)
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: November 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780815606741
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Biography: general; Christian ministry & pastoral activity; Congregationalist & United Reformed Churches; Women's studies; c 1800 to c 1900; Newman, Emma; Protestantism; Women And The Church; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Women; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Newman, Emma,; Historical - U.S.; Religious; Historical - General; 1838-1922
Description: "A biography and a fresh view of gender in relationship to geography, Emma Newman, A Frontier Woman Minister gives us a view of the evolution of women's roles in Christianity in nineteenth-century frontier America.".

"Randi Jones Walker illustrates how Emma Newman's life and career took her to an "American West" that was, in general, more receptive to women's professional aspirations. The vast, sparsely populated landscape modified traditional gender roles and relationships and demanded of all its inhabitants an entrepreneurial spirit. Social conventions restricting women's religious activity were less firmly entrenched than in the East.

And because the geography isolated men from women, minister from denomination, and minister from her people, it provided freedom for women to engage in pastoral work and to break the barriers keeping them from the pulpit and ordination." "Walker draws on Emma Newman's diaries and correspondence to examine religion through day-to-day experiences of one who lived a life of service on the American frontier."--BOOK JACKET.