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The Valiant Woman makes a significant contribution to important areas of recent religious research, including gender, Marianism, popular culture, and Catholic-Protestant interaction. Alvarez shows how both Protestants and Catholics invested in Mary, creating and appropriating her formidable cultural capital for common and divergent interests. -- Julie Byrne, author of O God of Players

"The Valiant Woman makes a significant contribution to important areas of recent religious research, including gender, Marianism, popular culture, and Catholic-Protestant interaction. Alvarez shows how both Protestants and Catholics invested in Mary, creating and appropriating her formidable cultural capital for common and divergent interests. -- ""Julie Byrne, author of O God of Players"""

The Valiant Woman makes a significant contribution to important areas of recent religious research, including gender, Marianism, popular culture, and Catholic-Protestant interaction. Alvarez shows how both Protestants and Catholics invested in Mary, creating and appropriating her formidable cultural capital for common and divergent interests. -- ""Julie Byrne, author of O God of Players""

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Elizabeth Hayes Alvarez is an assistant professor in the Department of Religion and the Intellectual Heritage Program at Temple University. She received her PhD in history of Christianity from the University of Chicago Divinity School. Her research and teaching interests include religion and gender, American religious history, and popular cultural studies. Tamara Marston has been an actor, singer, and director for more than thirty years. A career performer and musician, she has toured nationally with several groups and appeared on The Arsenio Hall Show and A&E's Goodtime Cafe. Dividing her time between acting and singing gigs, choral conducting, music and stage directing, jingle and voice-over work, private and public teaching, and family, Tami feels very fortunate to make her living working in the arts.

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