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"Women in Christian Traditions offers a concise and accessible examination of the roles women have played in the construction and practice of Christian traditions, revealing the enormous debt that this major world religion owes to its female followers. It recovers forgotten and obscured moments in church history to help us to realize a richer and fuller understanding of Christianity. This text provides an overview of the complete sweep of Christian history through the lens of feminist scholarship. Yet it also departs from some of the assumptions of that scholarship, raising questions that challenge our thinking about how women have shaped beliefs and practices during two thousand years of church history. Did the emphasis on virginity in the early church empower Christian women? Did the emphasis on marriage during the Reformations of the sixteenth century improve their status? These questions and others have important implications for women in Christianity in particular, and for women in religion in general, since they go to the heart of the human condition. This work examines themes, movements, and events in their historical contexts and locates churchwomen within the broader developments that have been pivotal in the evolution of Christianity. From the earliest disciples to the latest theologians, from the missionaries to the martyrs, women have been instrumental in keeping the faith alive. Women in Christian Traditions shows how they did so."--Page 4 de la couverture.

Women in Christianity --- History. --- Femme (christianisme) --- Women in Christianity. --- Femmes dans le christianisme --- Histoire. --- Christianity --- 396.7 --- History --- Vrouw en religie --- 396.7 Vrouw en religie

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The new religious movement of Peoples Temple, begun in the 1950s, came to a dramatic end with the mass murders and suicides that occurred in Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978. This analysis presents the historical context for understanding the Temple by focusing on the ways that migrations from Indiana to California and finally to the Cooperative Republic of Guyana shaped the life and thought of Temple members. It closely examines the religious beliefs, political philosophies, and economic commitments held by the group, and it shifts the traditional focus on the leader and founder, Jim Jones, to the individuals who made up the heart and soul of the movement. It also investigates the paradoxical role that race and racism played throughout the life of the Temple. The Element concludes by considering the ways in which Peoples Temple and the tragedy at Jonestown have entered the popular imagination and captured international attention.

Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978. --- Jones, Jim, --- Peoples Temple --- History. --- Guyana Massacre, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978 --- Peoples Temple Mass Murder-Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978 --- Mass suicide --- Massacres --- Jones, James Warren, --- Jones, Jimmie, --- Templo del Pueblo --- Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ

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Religious studies --- Sociology of religion