Women and the Pastoral Relationship in Nineteenth-Century American Culture
by
Karin E. Gedge, Harry S. Stout
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2003
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...