Southern Methodist Women and Social Justice
Interracial Activism in the Long Twentieth Century
Seiten
2025
University Press of Florida (Verlag)
978-0-8130-7931-8 (ISBN)
University Press of Florida (Verlag)
978-0-8130-7931-8 (ISBN)
Highlights the contributions of Methodist women in advocating for progressive reform from 1900 to the present.
Highlighting the contributions of Methodist women in advocating for progressive reform from 1900 to the present This book tells the stories of nine southern Methodist women, who, inspired by their faith, carried forward the spirit of progressivism. They fought for racial equality, challenged white male supremacy, and addressed class oppression. The white and Black women featured here responded to local human rights violations with compassion, advocating for expanded and more diverse private and public services in the United States.
Motivated by a modernist interpretation of the Gospel authorized by the tenets of Methodism, these women expanded notions of southern identity and womanhood. Their actions supported the Black freedom struggle and promoted women’s rights, gaining momentum after the 1939 rise of the Women’s Society of Christian Service—the largest Protestant women’s organization in the country. Grounded in research from church archives and interviews, this book shows how Methodist traditions provided spiritual, theological, and doctrinal support for social justice work among laywomen and female clergy. With Methodism as a case in point, this book expands the historical narrative of twentieth-century reform movements to include the South’s progressive religious traditions.
Contributors: Chelsea Elizabeth Hodge | Fran Wescott | Janet Lynn Allured | Randall M. Miller | Jeanette Stokes | M. Kathryn Armistead | Stanley Harrold | Rachel Sauls | Helen R. Neinast | Jennifer Copeland | Katie W. Powell
A volume in the series Southern Dissent, edited by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller
Highlighting the contributions of Methodist women in advocating for progressive reform from 1900 to the present This book tells the stories of nine southern Methodist women, who, inspired by their faith, carried forward the spirit of progressivism. They fought for racial equality, challenged white male supremacy, and addressed class oppression. The white and Black women featured here responded to local human rights violations with compassion, advocating for expanded and more diverse private and public services in the United States.
Motivated by a modernist interpretation of the Gospel authorized by the tenets of Methodism, these women expanded notions of southern identity and womanhood. Their actions supported the Black freedom struggle and promoted women’s rights, gaining momentum after the 1939 rise of the Women’s Society of Christian Service—the largest Protestant women’s organization in the country. Grounded in research from church archives and interviews, this book shows how Methodist traditions provided spiritual, theological, and doctrinal support for social justice work among laywomen and female clergy. With Methodism as a case in point, this book expands the historical narrative of twentieth-century reform movements to include the South’s progressive religious traditions.
Contributors: Chelsea Elizabeth Hodge | Fran Wescott | Janet Lynn Allured | Randall M. Miller | Jeanette Stokes | M. Kathryn Armistead | Stanley Harrold | Rachel Sauls | Helen R. Neinast | Jennifer Copeland | Katie W. Powell
A volume in the series Southern Dissent, edited by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller
Janet Allured is retired professor of history and women’s studies at McNeese State University and is currently adjunct professor of women’s history at the University of Arkansas. She is the author of Remapping Second-Wave Feminism: The Long Women’s Rights Movement in Louisiana, 1950–1997. M. Kathryn Armistead is the managing editor of Methodist Review. Her many books include Nevertheless She Leads: Postcolonial Women’s Leadership for the Church.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 12.03.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Southern Dissent |
| Zusatzinfo | 17 b&w illus. |
| Verlagsort | Florida |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8130-7931-4 / 0813079314 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8130-7931-8 / 9780813079318 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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