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Title A mighty baptism : race, gender, and the creation of American Protestantism / edited by Susan Juster and Lisa MacFarlane.

Publication Info. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1996.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  280.409 M634M    Check Shelf
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.
Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History.
African Americans -- Religion.
United States -- Church history.
United States -- Race relations.
Added Author Juster, Susan.
MacFarlane, Lisa, 1958-
ISBN 0801430240 alkaline paper
0801482127 paperback alkaline paper
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