Talk:Daughters of Light

Unencyclopaedic

This article has been tagged as containing "unencyclopaedic" content. Please could the tagger be more specific? Vernon White ^{. . . Talk} 22:37, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

An editor has removed material describing each chapter. I have re-instated the list of Transatlantic Ministers in Appx 1, as this list gives the scale of the movement and adds useful information to the WP articles on individual ministers. In my view, the chapter titles give a very useful view of the content of the book:

• Chapters==
• Beginnings===
  • Origins of Quakerism
  • George Fox and Quaker theology
  • Women as preachers
  • Quakerism's unity of genders
  • Spread of Quakerism
  • Critics of Quakerism
  • Quaker movement transformed
  • System of meetings: Extension of Quaker women's authority
  • Quaker survival in the world
  • Achievement of political tolerance
  • An emergence of Quaker transatlantic culture

• "Chosen instruments": identifying the Women Ministers===
  • Women ministers throughout the transatlantic Quaker community (comparing Jane Fenn, Catharine Payton and Abigail Craven)
  • The acknowledgement of Eighteenth-Century Quaker ministers
  • Patterns in women ministers' identities:
    • Religious background, Wealth and social status, Spiritual development, Call to the ministry, Literacy
  • Entrance into the public sphere

• "Love yt [that] many waters cannot quench": Women ministers travelling===
  • Increased numbers of women travelling
  • The "concern" to travel
  • The Atlantic voyage: Ocean crossing
  • Hazards at sea
  • On land: itineraries
  • Travel hazards on land
  • Guides and transport on land
  • Travelling companions
  • Travel accommodation
  • Communication during travel
  • Travel schedule
  • Travel changed the women ministers

"Dutiful wives, tender mothers": the family roles of women ministers

• • Marriage patterns
  • The ministers' spouses
  • Marital obligations of ministers
  • Women ministers' increased authority within the family
  • Women ministers' motherhood: family size
  • Women ministers' childcare
  • Quaker attitudes toward motherhood and child rearing
  • Quaker religious beliefs changed the family system

• "In the service of Truth": Impact of women ministers' travels on the Transatlantic Quaker community===
  • Visibility of women travelling minsters in the Quaker community
  • Women minsters elevated as public figures
  • How womens' ministry influenced Quaker lives
  • Addressing regional dilemmas
  • Innovative stances
  • The need for reform
  • Leaders of reform
  • Reform and abolitionism
  • Reform and Indian rights
  • Reform and the marriage discipline
  • Reform increases the number of women's meetings
  • Impact of women preachers on Eighteenth-Century Quakerism

• From "Witches" to "Celebrated preachers": the non-Quaker response to women ministers===
  • Quaker women preachers as public figures in non-Quaker culture
  • Historical reasons contributing to increased acceptance of Quakers in England
  • Historical reasons contributing to increased acceptance of Quakers in America
  • Changes within Quakerism
  • The role of gender
  • The ending of an era

• Afterword [A Case study of Elizabeth Webb (1663-1727)]===

• Appendices==
  • Appendix 1 (p305-319): Individual descriptions of the transatlantic Ministers.===

10-15 lines on each person.

• • Appendix 2 (p320-333): Partial list of American Quaker Women Ministers active 1700-1775 ===
    • Table with column headings Name, Husband, birth/death, Flourished, meeting location, birthplace.
  • Appendix 3 (p334): The number of deaths of Quaker Ministers in London Yearly Meeting ===
• Number of deaths each decade of men and of women ministers

Perhaps the deleter hasn't a great deal of interest in 18th C American history.== Vernon White ^{. . . Talk} 11:02, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Removed tag

Removed <refimprove|date=August 2010> tag after adding links to authoritative reviews. Vernon White ^{. . . Talk} 19:47, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

I wonder

I wonder why listing chapter headings of a book is regarded as "unencyclopedic" when discographies list every track of music albums. [[User:Vernon39|Vernon White ^{. . . Talk} 19:07, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Cornwall tag

Removed Cornwall project tag, added in error