Description |
x, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Introduction : "a sperit in de body" / Susan Juster and Lisa MacFarlane -- To slay the beast : visionary women in the early republic / Susan Juster -- "Ethiopia shall stretch forth her hands unto God" : Laura Kofey and the gendered vision of redemption in the Garvey Movement / Barbara Bair -- Resurrecting man : desire and "The damnation of Theron Ware" / Lisa MacFarlane -- Ministerial misdeeds : the Onderdonk trial and sexual harassment in the 1840s / Patricia Cline Cohen -- "The women have had charge of the church work long enough" : the Men and the Religion Forward Movement of 1911-1912 and the masculinization of middle-class Protestantism / Gail Bederman -- "Theirs the sweetest songs" : women hymn writers in the nineteenth-century United States / Mary De Jong -- The uses of the supernatural : toward a history of Black women's magical practices / Yvonne Chireau -- "It's a spirit in me" : spiritual power and the healing work of African American women in slavery / Sharla Fett -- Reading, writing, and the race of mother figures : Shakers Rebecca Cox Jackson and Alonzo Giles Hollister / Etta Madden -- "When we were no people, then we were a people" : evangelical language and the Free Blacks of Philadelphia in the early republic / Stephen Hum -- The governing spirit : African American writers in the antebellum city on a hill / John Ernest. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Subject |
Protestant churches -- United States -- History.
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Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History.
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African Americans -- Religion.
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United States -- Church history.
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United States -- Race relations.
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Added Author |
Juster, Susan.
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MacFarlane, Lisa, 1958-
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ISBN |
0801430240 alkaline paper |
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0801482127 paperback alkaline paper |
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