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Redeeming the Southern Family: Evangelical Women and Domestic Devotion in the Antebellum South
Scott Stephan
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Hardcover. Explores the day-to-day experience of spirituality in the lives of southern women. Rather than seeing evangelical women as entirely oppressed or resigned to the limits of their position in a patriarchal slave society, this work seeks to capture a sense of what agency was available to women through their moral authority. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 3JH; HBTB; HRCV; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
This is the day-to-day experience of spirituality in the lives of southern women.In the years leading up to the Civil War, southern evangelical denominations moved from the fringes to the mainstream of the American South. Scott Stephan argues that female Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians played a crucial role in this transformation. While other scholars have pursued studies regarding southern evangelicalism in the context of churches, meetinghouses, and revivals, Stephan looks at the domestic rituals over which southern women had increasing authority - from consecrating newborns to God's care to ushering dying kin through life's final stages. Laymen and clergymen alike ... Read more
This is the day-to-day experience of spirituality in the lives of southern women.In the years leading up to the Civil War, southern evangelical denominations moved from the fringes to the mainstream of the American South. Scott Stephan argues that female Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians played a crucial role in this transformation. While other scholars have pursued studies regarding southern evangelicalism in the context of churches, meetinghouses, and revivals, Stephan looks at the domestic rituals over which southern women had increasing authority - from consecrating newborns to God's care to ushering dying kin through life's final stages. Laymen and clergymen alike ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820332222
SKU
V9780820332222
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About Scott Stephan
Scott Stephan is an assistant professor of history at Ball State University.
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