Redeeming the southern family
Subtitle: evangelical women and domestic devotion in the Antebellum South
By: Scott Stephan.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Athens, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780820332222
Subjects: Christian women -- Religious life; Evangelicalism -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; Southern States -- Religious life and customs; Southern States -- Church history -- 19th century
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: From Cane Ridge to the Bible Belt : evangelicalism, gender, and the southern household in the Antebellum era; title: Taming the second great awakening : evangelical identity and worship patterns in the Antebellum South; title: Courting women, courting God : strenuous courtships and holy unions; title: Improvising on the ideal : evangelical marriages in the Antebellum South; title: "Unto whom much is given" : childbirth, child rearing, and coming of age in the evangelical home; title: Authoring the good death : illness, death bed narratives, and women's authority; title: Epilogue: "We walk by faith and not by sight" : Evangelicals and the Civil War era South.