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• catalog abstract ""Both contemporary popular accounts and twentieth-century scholarship have portrayed nineteenth-century women and clergymen as natural allies who 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 and the female parishioner, as well as the larger culture.". "Gedge draws on evidence from a wide range of previously untapped primary sources including travelers' accounts, transcripts and graphic images from trial pamphlets, sentimental and sensational novels as well as The Scarlet Letter, pastoral manuals, seminary students' and pastors' journals, and women's diaries and letters. Religious women who sought counsel, she finds, worried whether their minister would respect them, help them, and honor them. Surprisingly, she concludes, the answer was frequently negative. The dangers of the relationship are strikingly illuminated by the literature surrounding criminal trials of ministers accused of abusing both their pastoral office and individual women. Seminaries, however, worked to distance clergy from women by emphasizing scholarship, controversial theology, and preaching at the expense of pastoral care. Pastoral manuals ignored women as a constituency and advocated delegating pastoral work to ministers' wives. The pastoral relationship rarely mirrored the sensational intimacy described in the popular press, where it was seen as a subversive threat to families, religion, and the republic. Rather, ministers often recorded frustration, disdain, and avoidance in their relationships with women, while women reported neglect, disappointment, and disillusionment in their relationships with pastors. Receiving little help from the professional ministry, Gedge shows, women turned to family, friends, and published tracts for pastoral care. Without Benefit of Clergy is a compelling argument against the widely accepted thesis of the "feminization" of American clergy and an important contribution to our understanding of nineteenth-century American religious life."--BOOK JACKET.".
• catalog contributor b12854169.
• catalog coverage "United States Church history 19th century.".
• catalog created "c2003.".
• catalog date "2003".
• catalog date "c2003.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
• catalog description ""Both contemporary popular accounts and twentieth-century scholarship have portrayed nineteenth-century women and clergymen as natural allies who 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 and the female parishioner, as well as the larger culture.".".
• catalog description ""Gedge draws on evidence from a wide range of previously untapped primary sources including travelers' accounts, transcripts and graphic images from trial pamphlets, sentimental and sensational novels as well as The Scarlet Letter, pastoral manuals, seminary students' and pastors' journals, and women's diaries and letters. Religious women who sought counsel, she finds, worried whether their minister would respect them, help them, and honor them. Surprisingly, she concludes, the answer was frequently negative. The dangers of the relationship are strikingly illuminated by the literature surrounding criminal trials of ministers accused of abusing both their pastoral office and individual women. Seminaries, however, worked to distance clergy from women by emphasizing scholarship, controversial theology, and preaching at the expense of pastoral care. Pastoral manuals ignored women as a constituency and advocated delegating pastoral work to ministers' wives. The pastoral relationship rarely mirrored the sensational intimacy described in the popular press, where it was seen as a subversive threat to families, religion, and the republic. Rather, ministers often recorded frustration, disdain, and avoidance in their relationships with women, while women reported neglect, disappointment, and disillusionment in their relationships with pastors. Receiving little help from the professional ministry, Gedge shows, women turned to family, friends, and published tracts for pastoral care. Without Benefit of Clergy is a compelling argument against the widely accepted thesis of the "feminization" of American clergy and an important contribution to our understanding of nineteenth-century American religious life."--BOOK JACKET.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction: Dim views of the pastoral relationship -- The bellwether ; or, what the traveler saw -- Gone astray ; or, what the public feared -- Mending fences ; or, what the public saw -- Paradoxical pastors ; or, what the novelist imagined -- Forbidden or forgotten territory ; or, where the pastor feared to tread -- The unsteady shepherd ; or, what the pastor experienced -- Sheep without a shepherd ; or, what women experienced -- Epilogue: Separating the ewes from the rams; or, seeing through a new lens -- Appendix: Counting sheep ; or, what the historian did.".
• catalog extent "viii, 290 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0195130200 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog isPartOf "Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)".
• catalog isPartOf "Religion in America series".
• catalog issued "2003".
• catalog issued "c2003.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
• catalog spatial "United States Church history 19th century.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "259/.082/0973 21".
• catalog subject "BR525 .G43 2003".
• catalog subject "Christian women Pastoral counseling of United States 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Christian women Religious life United States 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Clergy Sexual behavior United States History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Clergy United States History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Clergy United States Sexual behavior History 19th century.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Dim views of the pastoral relationship -- The bellwether ; or, what the traveler saw -- Gone astray ; or, what the public feared -- Mending fences ; or, what the public saw -- Paradoxical pastors ; or, what the novelist imagined -- Forbidden or forgotten territory ; or, where the pastor feared to tread -- The unsteady shepherd ; or, what the pastor experienced -- Sheep without a shepherd ; or, what women experienced -- Epilogue: Separating the ewes from the rams; or, seeing through a new lens -- Appendix: Counting sheep ; or, what the historian did.".
• catalog title "Without benefit of clergy : women and the pastoral relationship in nineteenth-century American culture / Karin E. Gedge.".
• catalog type "text".