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Redeeming the Southern Family

Evangelical Women and Domestic Devotion in the Antebellum South [Paperback]

by Scott Stephan

    • Author

      Scott Stephan

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      University of Georgia Press

    • Published

      November 2011

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      Redeeming the Southern Family

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      In the years leading up to the Civil War, southern evangelical denominations moved from the fringes to the mainstream of the American South. Scott Stephan argues that female Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians played a crucial role in this transformation. While other scholars have pursued studies of southern evangelicalism in the context of churches, meetinghouses, and revivals, Stephan looks at the domestic rituals over which southern women had increasing authority-from consecrating newborns to God's care to ushering dying kin through life's final stages. Laymen and clergymen alike celebrated the contributions of these pious women to the experience and expansion of evangelicalism across the South.This acknowledged domestic authority allowed some women to take on more public roles in the conversion and education of southern youth within churches and academies, although always in the name of family and always cloaked in the language of Christian self-abnegation. At the same time, however, women's work in the name of domestic devotion often put them at odds with slaves, children, or husbands in their households who failed to meet their religious expectations and thereby jeopardized evangelical hopes of heavenly reunification of the family.Stephan uses the journals and correspondence of evangelical women from across the South to understand the interconnectedness of women's personal, family, and public piety. Rather than seeing evangelical women as entirely oppressed or resigned to the limits of their position in a patriarchal slave society, Stephan seeks to capture a sense of what agency was available to women through their moral authority.

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      • Author

        Scott Stephan

      • Book Format

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        University of Georgia Press

      • Published

        November 2011

      • Weight

        468g

      • Page Count

        320

      • Dimensions

        153 x 229 x 19 mm

      • ISBN

        9780820339801

      • ISBN-10

        0820339806

      • Eden Code

        4026357

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      • Author/Creator: Scott Stephan

      • ISBN: 9780820339801

      • Publisher: University of Georgia Press

      • Release Date: November 2011

      • Weight: 468g

      • Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 19 mm

      • Eden Code: 4026357

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