Engendering Church: Women, Power and the AME Church

by Jualynne E. Dodson

Book Overview

Engendering Church explores the power, processes, and circumstances that brought about the new gender relations in the African Methodist Church-one of the largest African American denominations in the U.S. Dodson's historical account of the church and its many changes shows that unless women hold church positions, they are overlooked as proactive agents of organizational power. She also links the church to broader social change. When women began to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847693813
• ISBN13: 9780847693818
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.9"