Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America, Set

Contributors

xi l Contributors Phyllis D. Airhart teaches at Emmanuel College, University of Toronto. She is author of Serving the Present Age: Revivalism, Progressivism, and the Methodist Tradition in Canada, and co-editor of Faith Traditions and the Family and Doing Ethics in a Pluralistic World: Essays in Honour of Roger C. Hutchinson. William Michael Ashcraft teaches in the social science division at Truman State University, Kirksville, Mo. Dianne Ashton is Professor of Religion and Director of American Studies at Rowan University. She is author of Rebecca Gratz: Women and Judaism in Antebellum America ; Jewish Life in Pennsylvania; and co-editor of Four Centuries of Jewish Women’s Spirituality. She writes widely on American Jewish history. Jocelyn M. Eclarin Azada is a graduate of GarrettEvangelical Theological Seminary, Chicago, Ill. She contributed the chapter on the economic influences on immigration and the implications for gender roles in the Filipino family in Gender, Ethnicity, and Religion: Views from the Other Side, edited by Rosemary Radford Ruether. Dori Grinenko Baker is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Christian education at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary and author of Doing Girlfriend Theology: GodTalk with Young Women. Mary Farrell Bednarowski is Professor Emerita of Religious Studies at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. Her research focuses on religion in American culture and the reciprocal dynamic between theological innovation and conservation. She is author of The Religious Imagination of American Women and New Religions and the Theological Imagination in America. Margaret L. Bendroth is author of Fundamentalism and Gender, 1875 to the Present; Fundamentalists in the City: Conflict and Division in Boston’s Churches, 1885–1950; and Growing Up Protestant: Parents, Children, and Mainline Churches and editor (with Phyllis D. Airhart) of Faith Traditions and the Family. Carolyn D. Blevins, Associate Professor of Religion, Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, Tenn., teaches church history and women’s studies. She is author of A Bibliography of Women in Church History; Women’s Place in Baptist Life; and several articles on women in Baptist history. Barbara J. Blodgett is Director of Supervised Ministries at Yale Divinity School. Ordained to the ministry of the United Church of Christ, she served as associate pastor of a congregation in Amherst, Mass.; coordinated Working at Teaching, a teacher-training program of the Yale University Graduate School; and was a member of the faculty of Oberlin College before joining the Divinity School administration. Her research interests include feminist, sexual, and professional ethics. She is author of Constructing the Erotic: Sexual Ethics and Adolescent Girls. Edith Blumhofer is Professor of History at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Ill., and Director of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals. Her books include biographies of evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson and the hymn writer Fanny J. Crosby. Sandy Boucher is author of a number of books on the subject of women in Buddhism, including Dancing in the Dharma: The Life and Teaching of Ruth Denison; Hidden Spring: A Buddhist Woman Confronts Cancer; Discovering Kwan Yin; and Turning the Wheel: American Women Creating the New Buddhism. Lois A. Boyd retired from Trinity University, San Antonio , Tex., and now resides in Denver, Colo. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Texas, Austin, and a master of arts degree from Trinity University . She is co-author, with R. Douglas Brackenridge, xii l CONTRIBUTORS of Presbyterian Women in America: Two Centuries of a Quest for Status. Mary C. Boys, S.N.J., is the Skinner and McAlpin Professor of Practical Theology at Union Theological Seminary , N.Y. She is author of Biblical Interpretation in Religious Education; Educating in Faith: Maps and Visions; Jewish-Christian Dialogue: One Woman’s Experience; and Has God Only One Blessing? Judaism as a Source of Christian Self-Understanding. Her edited books include Seeing Judaism Anew: A Sacred Obligation of Christians. Ann Braude is Director of the Women’s Studies in Religion Program and Senior Lecturer on the History of Christianity at the Harvard Divinity School. She is coeditor of Root of Bitterness: Documents of the Social History of American Women and author of Women and American Religion and Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. Catherine A. Brekus is Associate Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She is author of Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740–1845. Virginia Lieson Brereton (1944–2004) was Lecturer in English at Tufts University and author of Training God’s Army: The American Bible School, 1880–1940 and From...