Table of Contents
Notes on contributors vii
Introduction Sue Morgan Jacqueline deVries 1
1 Is there a Bible in the house? Gender, religion and family culture Sarah C. Williams 11
2 Women, writing and the creation of theological cultures Julie Melnyk 32
3 Women and philanthropic cultures Susan Mumm 54
4 Women, religious ministry and female institution-building Carmen M. Mangion 72
5 'With fear and trembling': women, preaching and spiritual authority Pamela J. Walker 94
6 Professionalising their faith: women, religion and the cultures of mission and empire Rhonda A. Semple 117
7 Women, religion and reform Clare Midgley 138
8 'The Word made flesh': women, religion and sexual cultures Sue Morgan 159
9 More than paradoxes to offer: feminism, history and religious cultures Jacqueline deVries 188
10 Modernity, heterodoxy and the transformation of religious cultures Joy Dixon 211
Afterword: women, gender and the re-imagining of a 'post-Christian' Britain Sue Morgan Jacqueline deVries 231
Index 235