Jesus Is Female : : Moravians and Radical Religion in Early America / / Aaron Spencer Fogleman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Fogleman, Aaron Spencer,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Early American Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 8 color, 19 b/w illus.

In the middle of the Great Awakening, a group of religious radicals called Moravians came to North America from Germany to pursue ambitious missionary goals. How did the Protestant establishment react to the efforts of this group, which allowed women to preach, practiced alternative forms of marriag...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations and Tables
• Introduction: The Challenge of Radical Religion
• Part I: Religion and Gender
• 1. Radical Religion in a Colonial Context
• 2. Gender and Confessional Order in the Protestant World
• Part II: The Moravian Challenge
• 3. The Challenge to Gender Order
• 4. The Ecumenical Challenge
• Part III: Religious Violence and the Defense of Order
• 5. The Orthodox Response
• 6. The Confrontation in the Middle Colonies
• 7. Religious Violence Erupts
• Conclusion: The Limits of Radical Religion in America
• Appendix 1. Anti-Moravian Polemics Written, Published, or Reprinted in North America, 1741-1763
• Appendix 2. Court Cases, Arrests, Imprisonment, and Pursuits of Moravian Preachers in the Mid-Atlantic Colonies of British North America, 1742-1747
• Appendix 3. Pastors and Assistants Sent by the Four Competing European Religious Centers to Work in the Lutheran and German Reformed Communities in the Mid- Atlantic Colonies of British North America, 1726-1754
• Notes
• Bibliography of Primary Sources
• Index
• Acknowledgments