Heart Religion in the British Enlightenment

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-521-88918-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 707 g

This is a major new study of the daily life and spirituality of early Methodist men and women. Phyllis Mack challenges traditional, negative depictions of early Methodism through an analysis of a vast array of primary sources - prayers, pamphlets, hymns, diaries, recipes, private letters, accounts of dreams, rules for housekeeping - many of which have never been used before. She examines how ordinary men and women understood the seismic shift from the religious culture of the seventeenth century to the so-called 'disenchantment of the world' that developed out of the Enlightenment. She places particular emphasis on the experience of women, arguing that both their spirituality and their contributions to the movement were different from men's. This revisionist account sheds new light on how ordinary people understood their experience of religious conversion, marriage, worship, sexuality, friendship, and the supernatural, and what motivated them to travel the world as missionaries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mack, Phyllis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen Methodistische Kirchen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. The managed heart: educating the emotions in Methodist discourse; 2. 'Out of the paw of the lion': first conversion; 3. Men of feeling: natural and spiritual affection in the lives of the preachers; 4. Women in love: Eros and piety in the minds of Methodist women; 5. Mary Fletcher on the cross: gender and the suffering body; 6. Agency and the unconscious: the Methodist culture of dreaming; 7. Methodism and modernity.

Über Autor(innen)

Mack, Phyllis
Phyllis Mack is Professor of History and Women's Studies at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Her previous publications include Calvinist Preaching and Iconoclasm in the Netherlands, 1544-1569 (1978) and Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in 17th Century England (1992).