Prophetic Sons and Daughters : : Female Preaching and Popular Religion in Industrial England / / Deborah M. Valenze.
In a study important to the fields of women's studies and English literature, as well as to the religious and social history of Britain, Deborah Valenze argues the significance of a cottage-based evangelicalism that responded to the transformation of England in the nineteenth century. She goes...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1985] ©1985 |
| Year of Publication: | 1985 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (330 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. The Popular Challenge to Established Religion
- One. Popular Evangelicalism in Historical Perspective
- Two. Domesticity and Survival
- Three. The Call for Cottage Religion and Female Preaching
- Four. The Rise of Methodist Sectarianism
- Part II. Rural Women and Cottage Religion
- Five. The Context of Cottage Religion and Female Preaching
- Six. Female Preaching and the Collapse of Domestic Security
- Seven. Female Preaching and Sectarian Heresy
- Eight. Female Preaching and Village Industry
- Part III. From the Country to the Town
- Nine. Women and the Industrial Town: Ann Carr and the Female Revivalists of Leeds
- Ten. The New Mendicant Preachers: Independent Methodism in Industrial England
- Part IV. Popular Culture and Religion
- Eleven. “The Work of God at Filey”: Popular Religion in a Yorkshire Fishing Village
- Twelve. Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index