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Article: Southern Baptist Sisters: In Search of Status, 1845-2000.(Book review)

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Southern Baptist Sisters: In Search of Status, 1845-2000. By David T. Morgan. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2003. 200 pp.

David T. Morgan's purpose for writing Southern Baptist Sisters was to document the role of women in "promoting the denomination's growth and development in the face of male fears that too much activity on the part of women would lead to their gaining control" over the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Morgan demonstrates that the fundamentalist takeover of the SBC returned women to a subordinate status--"where their female ancestors had been when the denomination was founded in 1845" (5). Morgan repeatedly ties the "male fears" of the ...

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