Monica D. Fitzgerald

Puritans Behaving Badly

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 294g
• ISBN-13: 9781108746199
• ISBN-10: 1108746195
• Artikelnr.: 63264673

Autorenporträt

Monica D. Fitzgerald is a professor in the Justice, Community and Leadership Program at Saint Mary's College of California.

Inhaltsangabe

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.