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\u201c<\/span>It is time for the truth to be told and for people to realize the attack on women is actually from Satan himself.\u201d Joyce Meyer makes this provocative proclamation in her 2006 book\u00a0The Confident Woman,\u00a0<\/i>in which the celebrity preacher argues that women are equal in God\u2019s eyes and must fight for their rights within the church and society. In fact, often men\u2019s \u201cegos\u201d prevent women from fulfilling their calling to minister or teach. \u201cHistorically, women have often been allowed to do a lot, if not most, of the praying and servant-type work in the church,\u201d she points out, \u201cMeanwhile, the same men who refused to let them preach or teach stay home and rest.\u201d This dichotomy is unacceptable for Meyer who believes that churches rely on women to fill certain \u201cfeminine\u201d roles while preventing them from realizing their full potential. She contends that men abuse the Scriptures (like Paul\u2019s writings in II Timothy) to hem women in, when those teachings were written within a certain cultural context\u2014women today should not be punished for the unique circumstances of the past.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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<\/span>This focus on women\u2019s rights and empowerment, however, is blurred with other passages that detract from Meyer\u2019s seemingly feminist perspective. The bold female pastor also makes note that women bless the world by being \u201ccreative, comforting, sensitive.\u201d They can also follow the model of the woman described in Proverbs through creative cooking. \u201cI fed my family hamburger 1,001 different ways,\u201d Meyer recalls, \u201cI must admit I wasn\u2019t too creative\u2026 our lady in Proverbs challenges us to go the extra mile and make things as good as possible.\u201d And even when women feel called to church leadership, they still should allow men to become the spiritual head of the home, without opposition.\u00a0The Confident Woman<\/i>\u00a0reveals the curious contradictions inherent in female prosperity preaching as embodied by Meyer and fellow female evangelists like Paula White. This kind of rhetoric raised some questions for me as I dug deeper into the messages and histories of these women. Are\u00a0<\/span>Meyer and White models of postfeminist preachers? Does the prosperity gospel actually help ameliorate the contractions that these postfeminist preachers present in their sermons and writings? T<\/span>his potential connection (between postfeminism and prosperity teachings) is one dichotomy that I\u2019m toying with in my current manuscript about megachurch culture.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cIt is time for the truth to be told and for people to realize the attack on women is actually from Satan himself.\u201d Joyce Meyer makes this provocative proclamation in her 2006 book\u00a0The Confident Woman,\u00a0in which the celebrity preacher argues that women are equal in God\u2019s eyes and must fight for their rights within the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nMeyer, White, and Women of the Prosperity Gospel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cIt is time for the truth to be told and for people to realize the attack on women is actually from Satan himself.\u201d Joyce Meyer makes this provocative\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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