Coming into Communion: Pastoral Dialogues in Colonial New England (S U N Y Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory)
By Laura Henigman.
Description
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 wi...
ISBN(s)
079144337X, 9780791443378
