Book Into the pulpitis

From The debate over women s roles in the Southern Baptist Convention s conservative ascendance is often seen as secondary to theological and biblical concerns Elizabeth Flowers argues however that for both moderate and conservative Baptist women all of whom had much at stake disagreements that touched on their familial roles and ecclesial authority have always been primary And in the turbulent postwar era debate over their roles caused fierce internal controversy While the legacy of race and civil rights lingered well into the 1990s views on women s submission to male authority provided the most salient test by which moderates were identified and expelled in a process that led to significant splits in the Church In Flowers s expansive history of Southern Baptist women the woman question is integral to almost every area of Southern Baptist concern hermeneutics ecclesial polity missionary work church state relations and denominational history. Kindle Into the pulpit definition Flowers s analysis part of the expanding survey of America s religious and cultural landscape after World War II points to the South s changing identity and connects religious and regional issues to the complicated relationship between race and gender during and after the civil rights movement She also shows how feminism and shifting women s roles behaviors and practices played a significant part in debates that simmer among Baptists and evangelicals throughout the nation today Into the Pulpit Southern Baptist Women and Power Since World War IIFlowers takes a quasi ethnographic approach to examine narratives of gender within the specific confines of the Southern Baptist publics privates and counterpublics Flowers writes with exceptional clarity and respect towards their participants voices This is a great example for those of us who research conservative religious rhetorics and narratives 080783534X Extraordinarily informative Flowers gives a detailed description of everything she mentions in this book Hard for me to get through because it was so dense with detail Excellent for research 080783534X.