A Mighty Baptism: Race and Gender, in the Creation of American Protestantism

by Susan Juster (Editor), Lisa MacFarlane (Editor)

Overview

Follows the influences of race and gender on the Protestant tradition in America from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801430244
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Publication date:	06/27/1996
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.06(d)
Lexile:	1430L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Susan Juster is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan.

What People are Saying About This

American Literature

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.

Editorial Reviews

Juster (history, Univ. of Michigan) examines the changing role of Baptist women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England. At first essentially equal to men in church governance and in the right to speak in church, women were gradually excluded from power in Baptist churches after the Revolution. As the Baptist church adopted a more patriarchal model of church organization, women were not only marginalized and silenced but associated because of gender with several serious sins, including sexual misconduct, lying, and slander. For an earlier, more general discussion of Baptists in New England, see William G. McLoughlin's New England Dissent 1630-1833: The Baptists and the Separation of Church and State (1971) and Soul Liberty: The Baptists' Struggle in New England, 1630-1833 (Univ. Pr. of New England, 1991). Appropriate for academic libraries and collections in women's studies and history of religion.-Patricia A. Beaber, Trenton State Coll. Lib., N.J.

Library Journal

"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

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