Women and Evangelicals in Northern Ireland

Abstract

In this chapter I present an overview of the place of women in the evangelical church in Northern Ireland, including a brief historical summary. There is a discussion of my definition of evangelicalism including a brief review of the features which separate evangelicalism and fundamentalism and a brief outline of the historical development of evangelicalism in Northern Ireland. Lastly a Christian feminist approach, based on critical theory, is presented as a theoretical framework for subsequent chapters. Issues of power, religion and gender are key themes in all discussions and are evident in each chapter.