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Why Me, Lord?
Betty Bone-Schiess
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Description for Why Me, Lord?
The story of the ordination of Reverend Betty Bone Schiess, one of the first women priests in the Episcopal church. Throughout the work, Schiess draws parallels to earlier efforts of the suffragettes and abolitionists of Seneca Falls. Series: Women in Religion. Num Pages: 176 pages, 28 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; HRCC91; HRCX1; HRCX4; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 295.
The story of the ordination of the Reverend Betty Bone Schiess - one of the first women priests in the Episcopal church. Reverend Betty Bone Schiess' engagingly written memoir is a valuable contribution to the scholarship of religious study as well as to feminist study and to legal scholarship, particularly on equal rights issues. Schiess draws parallels throughout her work to earlier efforts of the suffragettes and abolitionists of Seneca Falls.
The story of the ordination of the Reverend Betty Bone Schiess - one of the first women priests in the Episcopal church. Reverend Betty Bone Schiess' engagingly written memoir is a valuable contribution to the scholarship of religious study as well as to feminist study and to legal scholarship, particularly on equal rights issues. Schiess draws parallels throughout her work to earlier efforts of the suffragettes and abolitionists of Seneca Falls.
Product Details
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
Women in Religion
Number of Pages
168
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815607441
SKU
V9780815607441
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About Betty Bone-Schiess
Betty Bone Schiess was a chaplain at Syracuse and Cornell universities as well as the rector at Grace Episcopal Church in Mexico, New York, from 1984 to 1989.
Reviews for Why Me, Lord?
"On the hottest day fo July, 1974, eleven of us were ordained as the first women priests in the Episcopal Church. We were setting in motion a new feminist reformation which would change forever teh way church and society viewed and treated women - or so we thought." - from the Preface