Lights in Dark Places’
Women Evangelists in Early Victorian Britain, 1838-1857
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12033596 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donald M Lewis (Regent College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Pages | 415-427 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Church History (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0424-2084 • E-ISSN: 2059-0644 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0424208400012213 |
| OpenAlex | W2312547617 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Twenty years ago, Olive Anderson called for more detailed study of how the role of women changed in the nineteenth century, pointing out that only such careful investigations ‘can show how far the conventional stress upon feminism has been well judged’. She noted the contemporary strength of the churches as ‘the great arbiters of public attitudes toward social issues’ and argued that the beliefs and practices of popular religion (‘the religion of the unsophisticated laity in general’) were ‘full of change and diversity’
Diversity (politics · Feminism · Gender diversity · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |