Friday, January 3, 9:30–11:30 a.m.

Morning Session of AHA Affiliated Societies

American Society of Church History Session 5
American Women Religious Leaders: Claiming and Maintaining Authority

Palmer House, Burnham Room 5

Chair: Kathleen Flake, Vanderbilt University

Papers: "It Was My Own Composition": Authority and Self-Presentation in Mary Baker Eddy's Autobiographical Writings
Jana Riess, Publishers Weekly

Eliza R. Snow and the Delimitation of Mormon Women's Religious Authority, 1868–87
Jill Mulvay Derr, Brigham Young University

Carry Nation and Madeline Southard: Two Different Paths of Religious Leadership
Fran Grace, University of Redlands
Cynthia Cornell Novak, Pepperdine University

Comment: Michael S. Hamilton, Seattle Pacific University

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