Turn the Pulpit Loose: Two Centuries of American Women Evangelists [Hardcover]

Turn the Pulpit Loose features the lives and words of eighteen women evangelists including Sojourner Truth and Evangeline Booth, and lesser-known figures such as Jarena Lee (an African Methodist from the early 1800s) and Uldine Utley (a child evangelist in the early 1900s) who helped to shape American religious life from the nations infancy to the present. Highlighting substantial primary sources  sermons, articles, diaries, letters, speeches, and autobiographies  Priscilla Pope-Levison weaves together fascinating narratives of each womans life: her conversion and calling to preach, her primary evangelistic method, and her reflections about women in general. This anthology, complete with photographs of each evangelist, is an indispensable resource for a wide range of academic fields, including religion, history, women's studies, and literature.

Priscilla Pope-Levison [DePauw University (B.Mus.), Duke Divinity School (M.Div.), and the University of St. Andrews, Scotland (Ph.D.)] is Associate Dean for External Programs at Perkins School of Theology. Her published areas of researchsix books and numerous articlesinclude womens religious history, Methodist history and theology, mission and evangelism, and the ecumenical movement. She has authored or edited the following books: Building the Old Time Religion: Women Evangelists in the Progressive Era (2014), Sex, Gender, and Christianity (2012), Turn the Pulpit Loose: Two Centuries of American Women Evangelists (2004) Return to Babel: Global Perspectives on the Bible (1999) Jesus in Global Contexts (1992) and Evangelization in a Liberation Perspective (1991). She serves on several editorial boards, including the Ashgate Methodist Studies Series, Methodist Review, and New Room Books.