Puritans Behaving Badly: Gender, Punishment, and Religion in Early America

ISBN-13: 9781108478786 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 186 str.

Monica D. Fitzgerald

Opis

Explores how church disciplinary practices gendered Puritanism and challenged ideas of ministers. Laymen punished men for public behavior that threatened the peace, and women for private sins that allegedly revealed their spiritual corruption. These practices transformed 'the errand into the wilderness' as the normative Puritan became female.

Recenzje

'… a compelling and accessible read that makes a meaningful intervention in American Religious History, New England History, and Gender History … [It] is essential reading for academics, religious leaders, and activists as we change how we speak about, legislate, and make meaning of gender.' Jaimie D. Crumley, Reading Religion

Spis treści

Introduction: disciplining the sinful: a gendered lived religion; 1. The great hen squabble and regulating the godly path; 2. Drunkards and fornicators on Meeting House Hill: gendered sin and discipline; 3. 'Wicked tongues and wayward behavior': the language of confession; 4. A 'blubbering' war hero and the middle ground of masculinity: the case of Captain John Underhill; 5. 'Unquiet frame of spirit': Ann Hibbens, a troublesome and insubordinate woman; Conclusion. Three generations in the wilderness: gendered Puritanism and separate spheres; Bibliography; Index.