Piety and dissent : race, gender, and biblical rhetoric in early American autobiography / Eileen Razzari Elrod.

Author/creator Elrod, Eileen Razzari
Format Book
Publication InfoAmherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2008.
Descriptionxii, 230 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
Christian biography.
Church and minorities.
Social integration--Religious aspects. --Christianity.
Race relations--Religious aspects. --Christianity.
Sex role--Religious aspects. --Christianity.
United States--Church history.

Contents Margins and centers, new and old narrations : biblical voices, great awakening christianity and American autobiographical traditions -- I did not make myself so-- : Samson Occom and American religious autobiography -- John Marrant, John Smith, Jesus : borders, tangles and knots in marrants 1785 narrative -- Moses and the Egyptian: religious authority in Olaudah Equianos interesting narrative -- Gender, Christian suffering and the ministers voice: submission and agency in Abigail Abbot Baileys memoirs -- Devotion and dissent: Jarena Lees rhetoric of conversion and call -- Finding a way in the forest: religious discourse of race and justice in William Apess autobiography -- Religious imperatives, democratic voices, and autobiographical preoccupations.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 201-216) and index.
LCCN 2007022044
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