Piety And Dissent

Author : Eileen Razzari Elrod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015076143653

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Piety and Dissent by Eileen Razzari Elrod Pdf

"For pious converts to Christianity in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century New England, all reality was shaped by religious devotion and biblical text. It is therefore not surprising that earnest believers who found themselves marginalized by their race or sex relied on their faith to reconcile the tension between the spiritual experience of rebirth and the social ordeal of exclusion and injustice. In 'Piety and dissent', Eileen Razzari Elrod examines the religious autobiographies of six early Americans who represented various sorts of marginality: John Marrant, Olaudah Equiano, and Jarena Lee, all of African or African American heritage; Samson Occom (Mohegan) and William Apess (Pequot); and Abigail Abbott Bailey, a white woman who was subjected to extreme domestic violence. Through close readings of these personal narratives, Elrod uncovers the complex rhetorical strategies employed by pious outsiders to challenge the particular kinds of oppression each experienced. She identifies recurrent ideals and images drawn from Scripture and Protestant tradition -- parables of liberation, rage, justice, and opposition to authority -- that allowed them to see resistance as a religious act and, more than that, imbued them with a sense of agency. What the life stories of these six individuals reveal, according to Elrod, is that conventional Christianity in early America was not the hegemonic force that church leaders at the time imagined and that many people since have believed it to be. Nor was there a clear distinction between personal piety and religious, social, and political resistance. To understand fully the role of religion in the early period of American letters, we must rethink some of our most fundamental assumptions about the function of Christian faith in the context of individual lives." --

Author : Paul Middleton,Matthew A. Collins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567670229

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Matthew Henry: The Bible, Prayer, and Piety by Paul Middleton,Matthew A. Collins Pdf

Three hundred years after his death, Matthew Henry (1662–1714) remains arguably the best known expositor of the Bible in English, due largely to his massive six-volume Exposition of the Old and New Testaments. However, Henry's famous commentary is by no means the only expression of his engagement with the Scriptures. His many sermons and works on Christian piety - including the still popular Method for Prayer - are saturated with his peculiarly practical approach to the Bible. To mark the tercentenary of Henry's death, Matthew A. Collins and Paul Middleton have brought together notable historians, theologians, and biblical scholars to celebrate his life and legacy. Representing the first serious examination of Henry's body of work and approach to the Bible, Matthew Henry: The Bible, Prayer, and Piety opens a scholarly conversation about the place of Matthew Henry in the eighteenth-century nonconformist movement, his contribution to the interpretation of the Bible, and his continued legacy in evangelical piety.

Author : John Coffey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191006678

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The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume I by John Coffey Pdf

The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume I traces the emergence of Anglophone Protestant Dissent in the post-Reformation era between the Act of Uniformity (1559) and the Act of Toleration (1689). It reassesses the relationship between establishment and Dissent, emphasising that Presbyterians and Congregationalists were serious contenders in the struggle for religious hegemony. Under Elizabeth I and the early Stuarts, separatists were few in number, and Dissent was largely contained within the Church of England, as nonconformists sought to reform the national Church from within. During the English Revolution (1640-60), Puritan reformers seized control of the state but splintered into rival factions with competing programmes of ecclesiastical reform. Only after the Restoration, following the ejection of two thousand Puritan clergy from the Church, did most Puritans become Dissenters, often with great reluctance. Dissent was not the inevitable terminus of Puritanism, but the contingent and unintended consequence of the Puritan drive for further reformation. The story of Dissent is thus bound up with the contest for the established Church, not simply a heroic tale of persecuted minorities contending for religious toleration. Nevertheless, in the half century after 1640, religious pluralism became a fact of English life, as denominations formed and toleration was widely advocated. The volume explores how Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Baptists, and Quakers began to forge distinct identities as the four major denominational traditions of English Dissent. It tracks the proliferation of Anglophone Protestant Dissent beyond England—in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the Dutch Republic, New England, Pennsylvania, and the Caribbean. And it presents the latest research on the culture of Dissenting congregations, including their relations with the parish, their worship, preaching, gender relations, and lay experience.

Author : Graeme Hunter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351906913

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Radical Protestantism in Spinoza's Thought by Graeme Hunter Pdf

Spinoza is praised as a father of atheism, a precursor of the Enlightenment, an 'anti-theologian' and a father of political liberalism. When the religious dimension of Spinoza's thought cannot be ignored, it is usually dismissed as some form of mysticism or pantheism. This book explores the positive references to Christianity presented throughout Spinoza's works, focusing particularly on the Tractatus Theologico-politicus. Arguing that advocates of the anti-Christian or un-Christian Spinoza fail to look beyond Spinoza's ethics, which has the least to say about Christianity, Graeme Hunter offers a fresh interpretation of Spinoza's most important works and his philosophical and religious thought. While there is no evidence that Spinoza became a Christian in any formal sense, Hunter argues that his aim was neither to be heretical nor atheistic, but rather to effect a radical reform of Christianity and a return to simple Biblical practices. This book presents a unique contribution to current debate for students and specialist scholars in philosophy of religion, the history of philosophy and early modern history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0025746158

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The Practical Evils of Dissent. By a Clergyman by Anonim Pdf

Author : Daniella Talmon-Heller
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004158092

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Islamic Piety in Medieval Syria by Daniella Talmon-Heller Pdf

A study of the religious thought and practice of Muslims of all social echelons in Syria during the crusades and the anti-Frankish jihad, this book offers an intimate and complex analysis of the texture of medieval Islamic piety.

Author : William Gifford,Sir John Taylor Coleridge,John Gibson Lockhart,Whitwell Elwin,William Macpherson,William Smith,John Murray,Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle),George Walter Prothero
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCAL:$B201526

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The Quarterly Review by William Gifford,Sir John Taylor Coleridge,John Gibson Lockhart,Whitwell Elwin,William Macpherson,William Smith,John Murray,Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle),George Walter Prothero Pdf

Author : John Moffatt Mecklin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081294543

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The Story of American Dissent by John Moffatt Mecklin Pdf

Author : William Gibson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198870241

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Samuel Wesley and the Crisis of Tory Piety, 1685-1720 by William Gibson Pdf

This study uses the experiences of Samuel Wesley (1662-1735) to examine what life was like in the Church of England for Tory High Church clergy.

Author : Elizabeth J. Clapp,Julie Roy Jeffrey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191618345

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Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1790-1865 by Elizabeth J. Clapp,Julie Roy Jeffrey Pdf

As historians have gradually come to recognize, the involvement of women was central to the anti-slavery cause in both Britain and the United States. Like their male counterparts, women abolitionists did not all speak with one voice. Among the major differences between women were their religious affiliations, an aspect of their commitment that has not been studied in detail. Yet it is clear that the desire to live out and practice their religious beliefs inspired many of the women who participated in anti-slavery activities in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This book examines the part that the traditions, practices, and beliefs of English Protestant dissent and the American Puritan and evangelical traditions played in women's anti-slavery activism. Focusing particularly on Baptist, Congregational, Presbyterian, and Unitarian women, the essays in this volume move from accounts of individual women's participation in the movement as printers and writers, to assessments of the negotiations and the occasional conflicts between different denominational groups and their anti-slavery impulses. Together the essays in this volume explore how the tradition of English Protestant Dissent shaped the American abolitionist movement, and the various ways in which women belonging to the different denominations on both sides of the Atlantic drew on their religious beliefs to influence the direction of their anti-slavery movements. The collection provides a nuanced understanding of why these women felt compelled to fight for the end of slavery in their respective countries.

Author : Josiah Conder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Hymns
ISBN : COLUMBIA:50200313

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The Poet of the Sanctuary by Josiah Conder Pdf

Author : Tessa Whitehouse
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198717843

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The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 by Tessa Whitehouse Pdf

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts, The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. By considering Isaac Watts and Philip Doddridge in relation to their mentors, students, friends, and readers, it emphasizes the importance they and their associates attached to personal relationships in their private interactions and in print. It argues that this contributed to a distinctive literary style as well as particular modes of textual production for moderate, orthodox dissenters which reached beyond their own community to address and influence global discourses about education, enlightenment, and history. The book's focus on "textual culture" foregrounds relationships between forms as well as considering texts as they existed in one form or another. In examining textual culture, this book emphasises adaptation, transformation, fluidity and communality: it approaches the human relationships that make texts (including friendships, reading communities, intellectual exchange and business arrangements) with as much care as the content of the texts themselves. The book demonstrates that models of family and social authorship among Romantic-era dissenters advanced by Michelle Levy, Daniel White, and Felicity James were rooted in the domestic culture at earlier academies and in the example of members of the Watts-Doddridge circle.

Author : Timothy Larsen,Michael Ledger-Lomas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191506673

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The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume III by Timothy Larsen,Michael Ledger-Lomas Pdf

The five-volume Oxford History of Dissenting Protestant Traditions series is governed by a motif of migration ('out-of-England'). It first traces organized church traditions that arose in England as Dissenters distanced themselves from a state church defined by diocesan episcopacy, the Book of Common Prayer, the Thirty-Nine Articles, and royal supremacy, but then follows those traditions as they spread beyond England -and also traces newer traditions that emerged downstream in other parts of the world from earlier forms of Dissent. Secondly, it does the same for the doctrines, church practices, stances toward state and society, attitudes toward Scripture, and characteristic patterns of organization that also originated in earlier English Dissent, but that have often defined a trajectory of influence independent ecclesiastical organizations. The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume III considers the Dissenting traditions of the United Kingdom, the British Empire, and the United States in the nineteenth century. It provides an overview of the historiography on Dissent while making the case for seeing Dissenters in different Anglophone connections as interconnected and conscious of their genealogical connections. The nineteenth century saw the creation of a vast Anglo-world which also brought Anglophone Dissent to its apogee. Featuring contributions from a team of leading scholars, the volume illustrates that in most parts of the world the later nineteenth century was marked by a growing enthusiasm for the moral and educational activism of the state which plays against the idea of Dissent as a static, purely negative identity. This collection shows that Dissent was a political and constitutional identity, which was often only strong where a dominant Church of England existed to dissent against.

Author : Renn Dickson Hampden (bp. of Hereford.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600007425

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Observations on religious dissent by Renn Dickson Hampden (bp. of Hereford.) Pdf

Author : Elisabeth Salter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317080978

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Pieties in Transition by Elisabeth Salter Pdf

This significant and innovative collection explores the changing piety of townspeople and villagers before, during and after the Reformation. It brings together leading and new scholars from England and the Netherlands to present new research on a subject of importance to historians of society and religion in late medieval and early modern Europe. Contributors examine the diverse evidence for transitions in piety and the processes of these changes. The volume incorporates a range of approaches including social, cultural and religious history, literary and manuscript studies, social anthropology and archaeology. This is, therefore, an interdisciplinary volume that constitutes a cultural history of changing pieties in the period c. 1400-1640. Contributors focus on a number of specific themes using a range of types of evidence and theoretical approaches. Some chapters make detailed reconstructions of specific communities, groups and individuals; some offer perceptive and useful analyses of theoretical and comparative approaches to transition and to piety; and others closely examine cultural practices, ideas and tastes. Through this range of detailed work, which brings to light previously unknown sources as well as new approaches to more familiar sources, contributors address a number of questions arising from recent published work on late medieval and early modern piety and reformation. Individually and collectively, the chapters in this volume offer an important contribution to the field of late medieval and early modern piety. They highlight, for the first time, the centrality of processes of transition in the experience and practice of religion. Offering a refreshingly new approach to the subject, this volume raises timely theoretical and methodological questions that will be of interest to a broad audience.