Title: Redeeming the southern family : evangelical women and domestic devotion in the Antebellum South /
Authors: Stephan, Scott, 1969-
Publisher: University of Georgia Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Christian women Religious life.; Evangelicalism Southern States History; Southern States Religious life and customs; Southern States Church history
Abstract: Rather than seeing evangelical women as entirely oppressed or resigned to the limits of their position in a partriarchal slave society, Stephan seeks to capture a sense of what agency was available to women through their moral authority.
Contents: Introduction: From Cane Ridge to the Bible Belt : evangelicalism, gender, and the southern household in the Antebellum era -- Taming the second great awakening : evangelical identity and worship patterns in the Antebellum South -- Courting women, courting God : strenuous courtships and holy unions -- Improvising on the ideal : evangelical marriages in the Antebellum South -- "Unto whom much is given" : childbirth, child rearing, and coming of age in the evangelical home -- Authoring the good death : illness, deathbed narratives, and women's authority -- Epilogue: "We walk by faith and not by sight" : Evangelicals and the Civil War-era South.