Nineteenth Century American Women Writers and Theologies of the Afterlife 1st Edition by Jennifer 9781000407297 1000407292

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• ISBN 10: 1000407292
• ISBN 13:9781000407297
• Author: Jennifer

Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Theologies of the Afterlife
A Step Closer to Heaven

Table contents:

The Volume: A Step Closer to Heaven
Part I: (God)Mothers of Theology: Harriet Beecher Stowe and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Part II—Self-Made Theologies: Black Women’s Autobiographical Writings
Part III: Women and Utopian Theologies
Notes
Works Cited
Works Consulted
Part I (God)Mothers of Theology: Harriet Beecher Stowe and Elizbeth Stuart Phelps
1 Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Christian Scholar?: A Touch of Feeling in The Gates Ajar
Notes
Works Cited
2 Heaven as a Potential Space: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’ Afterlife Novels
Notes
Works Cited
3 Rewriting Heaven: Salvation and the Afterlife in the Works of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Notes
Works Cited
4 The Archetypal Girl Savior and the Child Theologian: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Little Eva and Martha Finley’s Elsie Dinsmore
Little Eva’s Theology, Purpose, and Impact
Elsie Dinsmore’s Theology, Purpose, and Impact
Two Evangelical Stories, Two Child Heroines, and Two Legacies
Notes
Works Cited
Part II Self-Made Theologies: Black Women’s Autobiographical Writings
5 “As to the Nature of Uncommon Expressions”: Jarena Lee’s Supernatural Worldview in The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee
Notes
Works Cited
6 Conversion and Counter-memory: Jarena Lee, Maria Stewart, and the Spiritual Motherhood of Mary Magdalene
Notes
Works Cited
7 “What Absurdity Next?”: The Precarious Pulpits of Zilpha Elaw, Black Woman Evangelist (1820–65)
Notes
Works Cited
8 “Aleaving the World, the Flesh, and the Devil”: Spiritual Vision and Celibate Holiness in Rebecca Cox Jackson’s Autobiographical Writings
Notes
Works Cited
Part III Women and Utopian Theologies
9 Discovering the Soul of the New Republic: The Early Fiction of Catharine Maria Sedgwick
A New-England Tale; or Sketches of New-England Character and Manners (1822): Egalitarian Theologies after the American Revolution
Resistance, Survival, Continuance: Native American Women and Christianity in Hope Leslie; or Early Times in the Massachusetts (1827) and “The Catholic Iroquois” (1825–26)
Soul Survivors
Notes
Works Cited and Consulted
10 “The Family Order of Heaven”: Belinda Marden Pratt’s Apology for Polygamy
Notes
Works Cited
11 Theologies of the Afterlife in Mormon Women’s Late-Nineteenth-Century Poetry
The Woman’s Exponent and Women Writing Poetry
A Material and Social Heaven
Combining Anthropocentric and Theological Visions of Heaven
Creating Their Own Visions of Heaven
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
12 Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Brook Farm, and the Heaven of Association
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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