In this contribution to the study of women and religon, Westerkamp analyzes how the Holy Spirit empowered women inPurtanism and evangelicalism. she argues that "these women, socially and politically subordinate according to custom and law, expreinced the Holy Spirit during their lives and discoved their own charismatic authority." Focusing on prominent women, like A. Hutchinson, J. Lee, and N. Towle, Westerkamp explores the interactions between gendre and religion in Purtanism, the First Great Awakening, Methodism, and voluntary associations.
Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Women, the Spirit, and the Reformation; 2 Wives and mothers in the colonial New England landscape; 3 Prophesying women; 4 The devil's minions; 5 Witnesses to the New Light; 6 Gender, revolution, and the Methodists; 7 Domestic piety; 8 The reformer's pulpit; 9 Voices and silence; Notes; Bibliographic essay; Index.
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