Women Preaching Revolution
Subtitle: Calling for Connection in a Disconnected Time
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: January 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780812231984
Subjects: Christianity; Women's studies; Women's Studies - General; Sermons - Christian; Clergy; Women And The Church; Religion; Religion - Church Music; Women authors; Sociology; USA; Sermons, American; Christian Rituals & Practice - General; Christianity - Ritual & Practice; Feminist theology
Description: In Women Preaching Revolution Lawless analyzes the sermons she has collected to determine whether the women who preached them have, in fact, developed new sermon traditions that are radically different from those that they were expected to learn in seminary. She asks what rhetorical structures and strategies they employ and how much the new styles owe to the influence of liberation, process, and feminist theologies.

As she explores these questions, Lawless also examines the relationship of tests and performances.