Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism

by Bryce Traister

Book Overview

Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism reconsiders the standard critical view that women's religious experiences were either silent consent or hostile response to mainstream Puritan institutions. In this groundbreaking new approach to American Puritanism, Bryce Traister asks how gendered understandings of authentic religious experience contributed to the development of seventeenth-century religious culture and to the "post-religious"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814252621
• ISBN13: 9780814252628
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"