Follows the influences of race and gender on the Protestant tradition in America from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century.
Acknowledgments ix Introduction: ``A Sperit in de Body 1(18) Susan Juster Lisa MacFarlane PART I PROPHETIC VOICES IN PROTESTANT AMERICA To Slay the Beast: Visionary Women in the Early Republic 19(19) Susan Juster ``Ethiopia Shall Stretch Forth Her Hands Unto God: Laura Kofey and the Gendered Vision of Redemption in the Garvey Movement 38(27) Barbara Bair PART II MINISTERS AND LAITY: SEXUAL POLITICS IN THE PROTESTANT CHURCH Resurrecting Man: Desire and The Damnation of Theron Ware 65(16) Lisa MacFarlane Ministerial Misdeeds: The Onderdonk Trial and Sexual Harassment in the 1840s 81(26) Patricia Cline Cohen ``The Women Have Had Charge of the Church Work Long Enough: The Men and Religion Forward Movement of 1911--1912 and the Masculinization of Middle-Class Protestantism 107(34) Gail Bederman ``Theirs the Sweetest Songs: Women Hymn Writers in the Nineteenth-Century United States 141(30) Mary De Jong PART III BLACK AND WHITE IN THE SPIRITUAL BORDERLANDS The Uses of the Supernatural: Toward a History of Black Womens Magical Practices 171(18) Yvonne Chireau ``Its a Spirit in Me: Spiritual Power and the Healing Work of African American Women in Slavery 189(21) Sharla Fett Reading, Writing, and the Race of Mother Figures: Shakers Rebecca Cox Jackson and Alonzo Giles Hollister 210(25) Etta Madden ``When We Were No People, Then We Were a People: Evangelical Language and the Free Blacks of Philadelphia in the Early Republic 235(24) Stephen Hum The Governing Spirit: African American Writers in the Antebellum City on a Hill 259(21) John Ernest Notes on Contributors 280(3) Index 283
