Coming into Communion: Pastoral Dialogues in Colonial New EnglandSUNY Press, 30 sept. 1999 - 234 pages By exploring the interrelationship between elite and popular religious culture in colonial New England, Coming Into Communion shows that laywomen made active significant contributions, through the process of dialogue, to religious language and theology in the early eighteenth century. Case studies examine a variety of women, including the poet Jane Colman Turell, Sarah Edwards (wife of the prominent theologian), and a group of women whose voices are preserved in history because they were accused of killing their newborn babies. Henigman tells the fascinating stories of their interchanges with their ministers to show that these women subtly revised the language of the clergy, choosing different scripture texts and images to describe a more intimate relationship with God and a holistic sense of community. |
Table des matières
To Love and Make a Lie Narratives of Infanticide | 17 |
Clerical Anxiety and the Execution Sermon | 20 |
Sexuality and Separation | 24 |
Competing Communities and the Erasure of Maternity | 30 |
Maternity and Community in the Sermons of John Rogers | 36 |
Freedom of spirit and liberty of speech | 44 |
A Note on the Negro Lad | 56 |
Community Responsibility and the Bastard Neonaticide Act | 57 |
Come to the Marriage | 111 |
Union by Vision | 116 |
Jane Turell at Medford | 128 |
Jane Colman Turell and the Travailing Woman | 134 |
Aftermath | 142 |
Flowing and Reflowing Dialogic Emanations | 151 |
The Danger of Narrative | 155 |
The Body Enspirited | 157 |
Juries of Women | 63 |
Silencing a Child of the Town | 74 |
The Challenge of Reconnection through Maternity | 79 |
On Wedlock and the Birth of Children The Pious and Ingenious Jane Colman Turell | 89 |
Piety or Ingenuity? | 92 |
Jane Colman Turell and the Tradition of Womens Religious Poetry | 97 |
Jane Colman Turell and Psalm Paraphrasing | 99 |
Sarah Edwards in Northampton | 166 |
Epilogue | 177 |
Notes | 181 |
Works Cited and Consulted | 209 |
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Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Coming Into Communion: Pastoral Dialogues in Colonial New England Laura Henigman Aucun aperçu disponible - 1999 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
American anti-community Awakening Bastard Neonaticide Act Benjamin Colman biblical binary birth bodily body Caroline Walker Bynum child childbirth Christ Christian church clerical Colonial New England congregational context conversion Cotton Mather crime culture DCWS Death describes dialogue discourse Dwight early New England Ebenezer Turell Elizabeth Singer Rowe England Esther Rogers execution sermons expressed female gender Heaven husband idiom important Increase Mather infant infanticide Ipswich Jane Colman Turell Jane Turell Jesus John Rogers Jonathan Edwards language letter literature marriage Mary Massachusetts maternal Medford metaphor ministers murder paraphrase passage pastoral Patience Boston perhaps Pillars of Salt poem poetic preached pregnancy Psalm Puritan relationship Religion religious Reliquiae Turellae Rogers's role sacrament Saint says sexual sinful singing Sinners social Society soul spiritual experience stillbirth story suggests theological tion Turell's Unclean vision voice Wages Wages of Sin Warnings Williams Witchcraft woman women words writings York young
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