{"product_id":"disorderly-women-sexual-politics-and-evangelicalism-in-revolutionary-new-england-9780801483882","title":"Disorderly Women: Sexual Politics and Evangelicalism in Revolutionary New England","description":"\u003cp\u003eThroughout most of the eighteenth century and particularly during the religious revivals of the Great Awakening  evangelical women in colonial New England participated vigorously in major church decisions  from electing pastors to disciplining backsliding members. After the Revolutionary War  however  women were excluded from political life  not only in their churches but in the new republic as well. Reconstructing the history of this change  Susan Juster shows how a common view of masculinity and femininity shaped both radical religion and revolutionary politics in America. Juster compares contemporary accounts of Baptist women and men who voice their conversion experiences  theological opinions  and proccupation with personal conflicts and pastoral controversies. At times  the ardent revivalist message of spiritual individualism appeared to sanction sexual anarchy. According to one contemporary  revival attempted \"to make all things common  wives as well as goods.\" The place of women at the center of evangelical life in the mid-eighteenth century  Juster finds  reflected the extent to which evangelical religion itself was perceived as \"feminine\"emotional  sensional  and ultimately marginal. In the 1760s  the Baptist order began to refashion its mission  and what had once been a community of saintsoften indifferent to conventional moral or legal constraintswas transformed into a society of churchgoers with a concern for legitimacy. As the church was reconceptualized as a \"household\" ruled by \"father\" figures  \"feminine\" qualities came to define the very essence of sin. Juster observes that an image of benevolent patriarchy threatened by the specter of female power was a central motif of the wider political culture during the age of democratic revolutions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646741995573,"sku":"ByrdShop_0801483883","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780801483882.jpg?v=1781677937","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/disorderly-women-sexual-politics-and-evangelicalism-in-revolutionary-new-england-9780801483882","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}