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Article: You Have Stept Out of Your Place: A History of Women and Religion in America.
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- May 14, 1997
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Though hundreds of articles and books on women and religion have appeared since the '70s, this impressive volume is the first comprehensive survey, of the field. With admirable clarity and evenhandedness, Susan Hill Lindley synthesizes recent scholarship to cover topics as diverse as Puritanism, the social gospel and alternative religions.
The book is arranged both thematically and chronologically, with 12 of its 22 chapters focusing on the 19th century. Too often, historians have restricted their studies to Protestant women, but Lindley includes chapters on Native Americans, Roman Catholics and Jews. In a final chapter on projections for the 21st century, she ...