Piety and dissent
Subtitle: race, gender, and biblical rhetoric in early American autobiography
By: Eileen Razzari Elrod.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781558496286; 9781558496293
Subjects: Christian biography; Church and minorities; Social integration -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; United States -- Church history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Margins and centers, new and old narrations : biblical voices, great awakening christianity and American autobiographical traditions; title: I did not make myself so; title: : Samson Occom and American religious autobiography; title: John Marrant, John Smith, Jesus : borders, tangles and knots in marrants 1785 narrative; title: Moses and the Egyptian: religious authority in Olaudah Equianos interesting narrative; title: Gender, Christian suffering and the ministers voice: submission and agency in Abigail Abbot Baileys memoirs; title: Devotion and dissent: Jarena Lees rhetoric of conversion and call; title: Finding a way in the forest: religious discourse of race and justice in William Apess autobiography; title: Religious imperatives, democratic voices, and autobiographical preoccupations.