Women leveraged their Sunday-school majority to shape the church’s future membership

Evidence

The Sunday school, being a part of the church work, makes the woman an important factor, not only in engaging in the work of the church as it is commonly understood, but also places her where she can even make the future church what she desires it to be. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 368

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Female missionary memberships powered religious education societies into national organizations — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 428; Radical Protestant sects offered women greater religious participation than orthodox churches — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 601

Broader Connections

• Female missionary memberships powered religious education societies into national organizations #expands (0.78) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 428
• Radical Protestant sects offered women greater religious participation than orthodox churches #qualifies (0.70) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 601