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192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/73542| Title: | Sisters and Saints Women and American Religion |
| Authors: | Braude, Ann ANN BRAUDE |
| Keywords: | Women and religion |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Description: | An old saying among members of African-American churches can be applied to most religious groups in the United States: “Women are the backbone of the church.” The saying has a double meaning. Women provide essential support for the church and affi rm its moral role, but their work happens in the background and their support is invisible. It is the men who play the leading roles in religious organizations. As a result, most people assume that women have had little importance in U.S. religious history. Few groups had women as leaders before the 1970s, and the largest ones still do not. Men administered the sacraments, wrote the prayer books, preached the sermons, and made the decisions. |
| URI: | http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/73542 |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-533309-1 |
| Appears in Collections: | History |
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