Bodies of Belief

Lindman, Janet Moore

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“…It has been observed that the numerical preponderance of Baptist women in England, Pennsylvania, and Virginia enabled them to pursue their own devotional culture based in the family and local community. 63 Even though women were denied authority within the wider organisation of the Baptist church, as Janet Moore Lindman has shown, the household, as a site of female piety, could confer spiritual authority upon them. 64 The stress on lay leadership in both eighteenth-century England and America, similarly provided signifi cant opportunities for women within the early Methodist societies.…”

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Female Friends and the Making of Transatlantic Quakerism, 1650–1750

Pullin

2018

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10 William C. Braithwaite was able to uncover one dubious reference to 'Society of Friends', dating from 1665, but he argues that this was used in a 'descriptive' rather than a 'customary' sense. William C. Braithwaite, The Beginnings of Quakerism (2nd edn, rev. H. J. Cadbury, Cambridge, 1961), pp. 307-308.The Temporary Subject Catalogue at the LRSF notes that the fi rst offi cial use of the term 'Religious Society of Friends' is thought to be in the 1793 address to George III. It was in common usage by 1800 when Joseph Bevan Gurney published A Refutation of Some of the More Modern Misrepresentations of the Society of Friends, Commonly Called Quakers .

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Female Friends and the Making of Transatlantic Quakerism, 1650–1750

Pullin

2018

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Religious Diversity in the 1790s

Corrigan¹

2000

The Cambridge History of Religions in America

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Delivery and Deliverance: Religious Experiences of Childbirth in Eighteenth-Century America

Balik

2022

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This paper argues that childbirth served as a prism for religious experience in early America, not just among the women who experienced it but also among the members of their households and communities. Examining childbirth as the source of religious experience can shed light on the social and physiological dimensions of early American spirituality by illuminating a religious culture of childbearing that shaped the piety of anyone who came into contact with it. We might expect that childbirth molded women's spirituality. But this article proposes that not just women but also others in their midst experienced religion differently because of their proximity to childbirth. Pregnancy, labor, and infant loss forced women and men to confront mortality and became means through which they carved out spiritual life, created ritual, and forged religious community. Using the body as a category of analysis, this paper reveals a space where the physical and spiritual persons intersect, and it argues that spiritual responses to childbirth as a physiological event were part of the longer arc of religious experience than we have previously appreciated. In doing so, it offers new ways to center women and gender in the narrative of early American religious history.

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Bodies of Belief

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Female Friends and the Making of Transatlantic Quakerism, 1650–1750

Female Friends and the Making of Transatlantic Quakerism, 1650–1750

Religious Diversity in the 1790s

Delivery and Deliverance: Religious Experiences of Childbirth in Eighteenth-Century America

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