WOMEN WITH THE GOOD NEWS: The Rhetorical Heritage of Pentecostal Holiness Women Preachers. by Dr. Kristen Dayle Welch
The first book to share interviews with women preachers of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church (IPHC), Dr. Welch explores rhetoric, gender, and religion in the biographies, autobiographies, and histories that detail what it means to be a Pentecostal woman preacher in Oklahoma. Archival materials provide a picture of Pentecostalism years before Oklahoma became a state in 1907, and a transcribed interview with the former Presiding Bishop of the IPHC, James Leggett, gives a contemporary view of what it means to be Pentecostal in the 21st century. A Christian scholar who grew up in the IPHC, Dr. Welch draws upon the field of rhetoric to use Jim Corder's theory of generative ethos to illuminate the way identity is constructed on individual, collective, and spiritual levels. She shows the role place plays in the development of faith and character in her chapter "We are of this Place: Oklahoma and Ethos." She concludes the book with an honest look at the administrative levels of the IPHC and ends with a note of hope for the future.
AUTHOR:Kristen Dayle Welch (PhD, University of Arizona) is Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Writing Center at Longwood University, Farmville, Virginia, USA.
Available: Amazon and CPT Press
Publication Date:Jul 12 2010 ; ISBN/EAN13:0981965199 / 9780981965192
Page Count:136 ; Binding Type:US Trade Paper; Trim Size:6" x 9" ; Language:English ;Color:Black and White ;Related Categories:Religion / History
Publication Date:Jul 12 2010 ; ISBN/EAN13:0981965199 / 9780981965192
Page Count:136 ; Binding Type:US Trade Paper; Trim Size:6" x 9" ; Language:English ;Color:Black and White ;Related Categories:Religion / History
[The IPHC international offices have been located in Bethany, Oklahoma since the late 1970's. The denomination formed in 1911 in Franklin Springs, Georgia by a merge of the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church and the Pentecostal Holiness Church]
