Rebecca's Revival - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rebecca's Revival write by Jon F Sensbach. This book was released on 2009-06-30. Rebecca's Revival available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rebecca's Revival is the remarkable story of a Caribbean woman--a slave turned evangelist--who helped inspire the rise of black Christianity in the Atlantic world. All but unknown today, Rebecca Protten left an enduring influence on African-American religion and society. Born in 1718, Protten had a childhood conversion experience, gained her freedom from bondage, and joined a group of German proselytizers from the Moravian Church. She embarked on an itinerant mission, preaching to hundreds of the enslaved Africans of St. Thomas, a Danish sugar colony in the West Indies. Laboring in obscurity and weathering persecution from hostile planters, Protten and other black preachers created the earliest African Protestant congregation in the Americas. Protten's eventful life--the recruiting of converts, an interracial marriage, a trial on charges of blasphemy and inciting of slaves, travels to Germany and West Africa--placed her on the cusp of an emerging international Afro-Atlantic evangelicalism. Her career provides a unique lens on this prophetic movement that would soon sweep through the slave quarters of the Caribbean and North America, radically transforming African-American culture. Jon Sensbach has pieced together this forgotten life of a black visionary from German, Danish, and Dutch records, including letters in Protten's own hand, to create an astounding tale of one woman's freedom amidst the slave trade. Protten's life, with its evangelical efforts on three continents, reveals the dynamic relations of the Atlantic world and affords great insight into the ways black Christianity developed in the New World.
Rebecca's Revival
Rebecca's Revival - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rebecca's Revival write by Jon F. Sensbach. This book was released on 2006-10-31. Rebecca's Revival available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Piecing together the forgotten life of a black visionary, Sensbach presents the remarkable story of a Caribbean woman named Rebecca Protten--a slave turned evangelist--who helped inspire the rise of black Christianity in the Atlantic world.
Does Christianity Squash Women?
Does Christianity Squash Women? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Does Christianity Squash Women? write by Rebecca Jones. This book was released on 2005. Does Christianity Squash Women? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A provocative look at how the Bible should define the identity of a woman and her choices about femininity.
Jesus in Our Wombs
Jesus in Our Wombs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jesus in Our Wombs write by Rebecca J. Lester. This book was released on 2005. Jesus in Our Wombs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Jesus in Our Wombs, Rebecca J. Lester takes us behind the walls of a Roman Catholic convent in central Mexico to explore the lives, training, and experiences of a group of postulants--young women in the first stage of religious training as nuns. Lester, who conducted eighteen months of fieldwork in the convent, provides a rich ethnography of these young women's journeys as they wrestle with doubts, fears, ambitions, and setbacks in their struggle to follow what they believe to be the will of God. Gracefully written, finely textured, and theoretically rigorous, this book considers how these aspiring nuns learn to experience God by cultivating an altered experience of their own female bodies, a transformation they view as a political stance against modernity. Lester explains that the Postulants work toward what they see as an "authentic" femininity--one that has been eclipsed by the values of modern society. The outcome of this process has political as well as personal consequences. The Sisters learn to understand their very intimate experiences of "the Call"--and their choices in answering it--as politically relevant declarations of self. Readers become intimately acquainted with the personalities, family backgrounds, friendships, and aspirations of the Postulants as Lester relates the practices and experiences of their daily lives. Combining compassionate, engaged ethnography with an incisive and provocative theoretical analysis of embodied selves, Jesus in Our Wombs delivers a profound analysis of what Lester calls the convent's "technology of embodiment" on multiple levels--from the phenomenological to the political.
A Tale of Two Plantations
A Tale of Two Plantations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Tale of Two Plantations write by Richard S. Dunn. This book was released on 2014-11-04. A Tale of Two Plantations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Richard Dunn reconstructs the lives of three generations of slaves on a sugar estate in Jamaica and a plantation in Virginia, to understand the starkly different forms slavery took. Deadly work regimens and rampant disease among Jamaican slaves contrast with population expansion in Virginia leading to the selling of slaves and breakup of families.
