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This Edited Volume Is A Comprehensive Overview Of Women, Gender And Religious Change In Modern Britain Spanning From The Evangelical Revival Of The Early 1800s To Interwar Debates Over Women's Roles And Ministry. Introduction / Sarah C. Williams -- Women, Writing And The Creation Of Theological Cultures / Julie Melnyk -- Women And Philanthropic Cultures / Susan Mumm -- Women, Religious Ministry And Female Institution-building / Carmen M. Mangion -- 'with Fear And Trembling': Women, Preaching And Spiritual Authority / Pamela J. Walker -- Professionalising Their Faith: Women, Religion And The Cultures Of Mission And Empire / Rhonda A. Semple -- Women, Religion And Reform / Clare Midgley -- 'the Word Made Flesh': Women, Religion And Sexual Cultures / Sue Morgan -- More Than Paradoxes To Offer: Feminism, History And Religious Cultures / Jacqueline Devries -- Modernity, Heterodoxy And The Transformation Of Religious Cultures / Joy Dixon -- Afterword: Women, Gender And The Re-imagining Of A 'post-christian' Britain / Sue Morgan And Jacqueline Devries. Edited By Sue Morgan And Jacqueline Devries. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.