Female Piety in Puritan New England

The Emergence of Religious Humanism

Amanda Porterfield author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:6th Feb '92

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Female Piety in Puritan New England cover

Amanda Porterfield documents the claim that for Puritan men and women alike the ideals of selfhood were conveyed by female images. Constructed largely by men, Porterfield argues, these female images taught self-control, shaped pious ideals, and also established the standards against which the moral character of actual women was measured. Porterfield's work reflects a synthesis of literary critical and historical methods, combining analysis of Puritan theological writings with detailed examinations of historical records of changing patterns of church membership and domestic life.

'appealing and well argued' Mary Beth Norton, Cornell University, The Historian (US)

ISBN: 9780195068214

Dimensions: 217mm x 146mm x 23mm

Weight: 412g

224 pages