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The common view of the nineteenth-century pastoral relationship–found in both contemporary popular accounts and 20th-century scholarship–was that women and clergymen formed a natural alliance and enjoyed a particular influence over each other. In Without Benefit of Clergy, Karin Gedge tests this thesis by examining the pastoral relationship from the perspective of the minister, the female parishioner, and the larger culture. The question that troubled religious wo… More >>

Without Benefit of Clergy: Women and the Pastoral Relationship in Nineteenth-Century American Culture

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