Prophetic sons and daughters : female preaching and popular religion in industrial England / Deborah M. Valenze.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Valenze, Deborah M., 1953- author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Methodist Church (Great Britain)--History--19th century.

Methodist Church (Great Britain).

Women clergy--England--History--19th century.

Women clergy.

Methodist Church--England--History--19th century.

Methodist Church.

Sermons, English--19th century--History and criticism.

Sermons, English.

England--Church history--19th century.

England.

England--Religious life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 307 p. )

Edition:

Princeton Legacy Library edition.

Other Title:

Prophetic sons & daughters.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 beyond previous treatments of popular religion by offering a glimpse into the lives of humble people for whom a domestic form of religion became the focal point of daily activity. In addition, she opens up a hitherto unknown aspect of the history of nineteenth-century women by demonstrating the importance of working-class female preachers--vigorous ministers who risked their physical well-being and reputations by traveling widely on their own and speaking publicly to audiences of both sexes. Using local histories, memoirs, and the history of Methodist sectarianism to explore conditions confronted by evangelicals, Dr. Valenze concludes that cottage religion provided the basis for domestic and spiritual ideals of laboring families during a period of tremendous upheaval. She shows how this ideology enabled women to challenge the institutions and values of industrial society and to exercise their power in both private and public spheres. Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Front matter

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691655000

0691655006

9780691628332

0691628335

OCLC:

298105189