Coming into Communion: Pastoral Dialogues in Colonial New England

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SUNY Press, 1999年9月30日 - 234 頁
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 with their ministers to show that these women subtly revised the language of the clergy, choosing different scripture texts and images to describe a more intimate relationship with God and a holistic sense of community.

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To Love and Make a Lie Narratives of Infanticide
17
Clerical Anxiety and the Execution Sermon
20
Sexuality and Separation
24
Competing Communities and the Erasure of Maternity
30
Maternity and Community in the Sermons of John Rogers
36
Freedom of spirit and liberty of speech
44
A Note on the Negro Lad
56
Community Responsibility and the Bastard Neonaticide Act
57
Come to the Marriage
111
Union by Vision
116
Jane Turell at Medford
128
Jane Colman Turell and the Travailing Woman
134
Aftermath
142
Flowing and Reflowing Dialogic Emanations
151
The Danger of Narrative
155
The Body Enspirited
157

Juries of Women
63
Silencing a Child of the Town
74
The Challenge of Reconnection through Maternity
79
On Wedlock and the Birth of Children The Pious and Ingenious Jane Colman Turell
89
Piety or Ingenuity?
92
Jane Colman Turell and the Tradition of Womens Religious Poetry
97
Jane Colman Turell and Psalm Paraphrasing
99
Sarah Edwards in Northampton
166
Epilogue
177
Notes
181
Works Cited and Consulted
209
Index
227
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Laura Henigman earned her Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. Her teaching and writing focus on the religious and political discourses of early America.

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