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A thoroughly updated collection of essays that demonstrates how feminist issues are compatible with the best in current spirituality and theology as well as with great spiritual teachers. (publisher's edscription)

Christian women --- Women --- Religious life --- Psychology

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Christian poetry, English --- Christian women --- Meditations. --- Religious life --- Poetry.

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Impelled by a call to share their gifts through service, Russian Mennonite women immigrating to Canada organized their own church societies (Vereine) as avenues of mission and spiritual strengthening. For women who were restricted from leadership positions within the church, these societies became the primary avenue of church involvement. Through them they contributed vast amounts of energy, time and financial resources to the mission activity of the church. The societies thus became a context in which women could speak, pray and creatively give expression to their own understanding of the biblical message. Using primary sources such as reports, letters, minutes, etc., as well as society histories, interviews and survey data, Redekop charts the development of these societies, from the establishment of the earliest ones in the 1870s to their flowering in the fifties and sixties and their decline in the eighties and nineties. The Work of Their Hands elucidates the context in which Mennonite women lived their identity as Christian women, one considered appropriate by themselves and the institutional church. It also shows how changes to the societies, including declining membership and a shift in their primary focus from sewing and baking to one of spiritual fellowship, reflect the changing roles of women within the church, the home and the wider society. The Work of Their Hands is an important book in the history of Mennonite women’s spirituality and will be a valuable resource for religious studies, women’s studies and Canadian history.

Women in church work --- Mennonite women --- Church work --- Women, Mennonite --- Christian women --- Mennonites. --- Societies and clubs.

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Christian women saints --- Christian saints --- Saintes chrétiennes --- Saints chrétiens --- Cult --- Culte --- Renelde, --- Rénelde,

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Examines women who chose to risk persecution and martyrdom to pursue the radical Protestant movement during the Reformation. Most of the 34 essays focus on a single woman, but others discuss such groups as women in the Hutterite song book, women in Tiron who recanted, and women leaders in Augsburg.

Reformation. --- Christian women martyrs --- Anabaptist women --- Christian women --- Women Christian martyrs --- Christian martyrs --- Women martyrs --- Protestant Reformation --- Reformation --- Church history --- Counter-Reformation --- Protestantism --- Biography. --- History --- Femmes anabaptistes --- Martyres chrétiennes --- Réforme (Christianisme) --- Biographies