Follows the influences of race and gender on the Protestant tradition in America from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century.
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"Juster and MacFarane have shaped an extremely interesting collection of essays that seek to explain important aspects of religious experience in America during the nineteenth century. Contributors to the work explore the warp and woof of gender and race in the fabric of Protestant culture."American Literature, March 1997
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
Susan Juster is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan.
