Author: Sarah OsbornPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Familiar Letters, Written by Mrs. Sarah Osborn, and Miss Susanna Anthony
Author: Sarah OsbornSarah Osborn's Collected Writings
Author: Sarah OsbornPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300182899
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- A Note on the Text -- ONE: That Precious Promise, 1742 -- TWO: A Memoir, 1743 -- THREE: A Son's Death, 1744 -- FOUR: A Hidden God, 1744-1754 -- FIVE: The Nature, Certainty, and Evidence of True Christianity, 1755 -- SIX: Zion's Troubles, 1756-1758 -- SEVEN: Open My Hand and Heart, 1759-1760 -- EIGHT: Glorify Thyself in Me, 1761-1763 -- NINE: Revive Thy Work, 1764-1768 -- TEN: Great Influence, 1769-1774 -- ELEVEN: All That Hath Befallen Us, 1779-1780 -- TWELVE: Visions of Heaven -- THIRTEEN: Sarah Osborn's Will and Inventory -- List of Abbreviations -- Appendix: Locations of Sarah Osborn's Writings Included in This Volume -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W
Sarah Osborn's World
Author: Catherine A. BrekusPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300188323
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
In 1743, sitting quietly with pen in hand, Sarah Osborn pondered how to tell the story of her life, how to make sense of both her spiritual awakening and the sudden destitution of her family. Remarkably, the memoir she created that year survives today, as do more than two thousand additional pages she composed over the following three decades. Sarah Osborn's World is the first book to mine this remarkable woman’s prolific personal and spiritual record. Catherine Brekus recovers the largely forgotten story of Sarah Osborn's life as one of the most charismatic female religious leaders of her time, while also connecting her captivating story to the rising evangelical movement in eighteenth-century America. A schoolteacher in Rhode Island, a wife, and a mother, Sarah Osborn led a remarkable revival in the 1760s that brought hundreds of people, including many slaves, to her house each week. Her extensive written record—encompassing issues ranging from the desire to be "born again" to a suspicion of capitalism—provides a unique vantage point from which to view the emergence of evangelicalism. Brekus sets Sarah Osborn's experience in the context of her revivalist era and expands our understanding of the birth of the evangelical movement—a movement that transformed Protestantism in the decades before the American Revolution.
Religious Melancholy and Protestant Experience in America
Author: Julius H. RubinPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195083016
Category : Anorexia nervosa
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This thought-provoking study examines an apparent paradox in the history of American Protestant evangelical religion. Fervent believers who devoted themselves completely to the challenges of making a Christian life, who longed to know God's rapturous love, all too often languished in despair, feeling forsaken by God. Indeed, some individuals became obsessed by guilt, terror of damnation, and the idea that they had committed an unpardonable sin. Ironically, those most devoted to fostering the soul's maturation seemingly neglected the well-being of the psyche. Drawing upon many sources, including unpublished diaries, spiritual narratives, and case studies of patients treated in nineteenth-century asylums, Julius Rubin thoroughly explores religious melancholy - as a distinctive stance toward life, a grieving over the loss of God's love, and an obsession and psycho pathology associated with the spiritual itinerary of conversion. The varieties of this spiritual sickness include sinners who would fast unto death ("evangelical anorexia nervosa"), religious suicides, and those obsessed with unpardonable sin. From colonial Puritans like Michael Wigglesworth to contemporary evangelicals like Billy Graham, Rubin shows that religious melancholy has shaped the experience of self and identity for those who sought rebirth as children of God. Religious Melancholy and Protestant Experience in America offers a fresh and revealing look at a widely recognized phenomenon. It will be of interest to scholars and students of religious studies, American history, psychology, and sociology of religion.
Theologies of Pain
Author: Lucas HardyPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350400386
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
With the arrival of Puritan settlers in New England in the middle decades of the 17th-century, accounts of sickness, colonial violence, and painful religious transformation quickly emerged, enabling new forms of testimonial writing in prose and poetry. Investigating a broad transatlantic archive of religious literature, historical medical science, and philosophies of sensation, this book explores how Puritan America contemplated pain and ascribed meaning to it in writing. By weaving the experience of pained bodies into popular public discourse, Hardy shows how Puritans imagined the pained Christian body, whilst simultaneously marginalizing and vilifying those who expressed suffering by different measures, including Indigenous Americans and unorthodox colonists. Focusing on pain as it emerged from spaces of inchoate settlement and colonial violence, he provides new understandings of early American nationalism and connected racial tropes which persist today.
The Bonds of Womanhood
Author: Nancy F. CottPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300254083
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This Veritas edition of Nancy Cott's acclaimed study includes a new introduction by the author, situating the work for a new generation of readers. "Elegant and convincing. . . . Better than any other work available, The Bonds of Womanhood describes both the classic attitudes of the nineteenth century toward women and the opposition to the oppression of women in the historical context from which they grew."--Willie Lee Rose, New York Review of Books "A lovely, gentle, scholarly, and valuable book."--Doris Grumbach, New York Times Book Review
The Religious History of American Women
Author: Catherine A. BrekusPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807867993
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
More than a generation after the rise of women's history alongside the feminist movement, it is still difficult, observes Catherine Brekus, to locate women in histories of American religion. Mary Dyer, a Quaker who was hanged for heresy; Lizzie Robinson, a former slave and laundress who sold Bibles door to door; Sally Priesand, a Reform rabbi; Estela Ruiz, who saw a vision of the Virgin Mary--how do these women's stories change our understanding of American religious history and American women's history? In this provocative collection of twelve essays, contributors explore how considering the religious history of American women can transform our dominant historical narratives. Covering a variety of topics--including Mormonism, the women's rights movement, Judaism, witchcraft trials, the civil rights movement, Catholicism, everyday religious life, Puritanism, African American women's activism, and the Enlightenment--the volume enhances our understanding of both religious history and women's history. Taken together, these essays sound the call for a new, more inclusive history. Contributors: Ann Braude, Harvard Divinity School Catherine A. Brekus, University of Chicago Divinity School Anthea D. Butler, University of Rochester Emily Clark, Tulane University Kathleen Sprows Cummings, University of Notre Dame Amy Koehlinger, Florida State University Janet Moore Lindman, Rowan University Susanna Morrill, Lewis and Clark College Kristy Nabhan-Warren, Augustana College Pamela S. Nadell, American University Elizabeth Reis, University of Oregon Marilyn J. Westerkamp, University of California, Santa Cruz
Nathaniel Taylor, New Haven Theology, and the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards
Author: Douglas A. SweeneyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198035101
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Nathaniel Taylor was arguably the most influential and the most frequently misrepresented American theologian of his generation. While he claimed to be an Edwardsian Calvinist, very few people believed him. This book attempts to understand how Taylor and his associates could have counted themselves Edwardsians. In the process, it explores what it meant to be an Edwardsian minister and intellectual in the 19th century.
Encyclopedia of American Literature
Author: Manly, Inc.Publisher: Infobase Learning
ISBN: 1438140770
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 4512
Book Description
Susan Clair Imbarrato, Carol Berkin, Brett Barney, Lisa Paddock, Matthew J. Bruccoli, George Parker Anderson, Judith S.
Practicing Protestants
Author: Laurie F. Maffly-KippPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801889324
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This collection of essays explores the significance of practice in understanding American Protestant life. The authors are historians of American religion, practical theologians, and pastors and were the twelve principal researchers in a three-year collaborative project sponsored by the Lilly Endowment. Profiling practices that range from Puritan devotional writing to twentieth-century prayer, from missionary tactics to African American ritual performance, these essays provide a unique historical perspective on how Protestants have lived their faith within and outside of the church and how practice has formed their identities and beliefs. Each chapter focuses on a different practice within a particular social and cultural context. The essays explore transformations in American religious culture from Puritan to Evangelical and Enlightenment sensibilities in New England, issues of mission, nationalism, and American empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, devotional practices in the flux of modern intellectual predicaments, and the claims of late-twentieth-century liberal Protestant pluralism. Breaking new ground in ritual studies and cultural history, Practicing Protestants offers a distinctive history of American Protestant practice.