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Title:Canadian Methodist Women, 1766-1925 : Marys, Marthas, Mothers in Israel
Series:(Studies in Women & Religion)
Author:Marilyn Färdig Whiteley
ISBN:0889204802 : 9780889204805
Illustrations:b/w photos
Format:Hardback
Size:155x230mm
Pages:310
Weight: .652 Kg.
Published:Wilfrid Laurier University Press - April 2005
List Price: 56.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Methodist Churches: Womens studies: Canada


Canadian Methodist women, like women of all religious traditions, have expressed their faith in accordance with their denominational heritage. Canadian Methodist Women, 1766-1925: Marys, Marthas, Mothers in Israel analyses the spiritual life and the varied activity of women whose faith helped shape the life of the Methodist Church and of Canadian society from the latter half of the eighteenth century until church union in 1925. Based on extensive reading of periodicals, biographies, autobiographies, and the records of many women’s groups across Canada, as well as early histories of Methodism, Whitely tells the story of ordinary women who provided hospitality for itinerant preachers, taught Sunday school, played the melodeon, selected and supported women missionaries, and taught sewing to immigrant girls, thus expressing their faith according to their opportunities. In performing these tasks they sometimes expanded women’s roles well beyond their initial boundaries. Focusing on religious practices, Canadian Methodist Women, 1766-1925 provides a broad perspective on the Methodist movement that helped shape nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Canadian society. The use and interpretation of many new or little-used sources will interest those wishing to learn more about the history of women in religion and in Canadian society.