Download or read book Noyesism Unveiled written by Hubbard Eastman and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Smitten written by Rodney Hessinger and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Smitten, Rodney Hessinger examines how the Second Great Awakening disrupted gender norms across a breadth of denominations. The displacement and internal migration of Americans created ripe conditions for religious competition in the North. Hessinger argues that during this time of religious ferment, religious seekers could, in turn, play the missionary or the convert. The dynamic of religious rivalry inexorably led toward sexual and gender disruption. Contending within an increasingly democratic religious marketplace, preachers had to court converts in order to flourish. They won followers through charismatic allure and making concessions to the desires of the people. Opening their own hearts to new religious impulses, some religious visionaries offered up radical dispensations—including new visions of how God wanted them to reorder sex and gender relations in society. A wide array of churches, including Methodists, Baptists, Mormons, Shakers, Catholics, and Perfectionists, joined the fray. Religious contention and innovation ultimately produced backlash. Charges of seduction and gender trouble ignited fights within, among, and against churches. Religious opponents insisted that the newly converted were smitten with preachers, rather than choosing churches based on reason and scripture. Such criticisms coalesced into a broader pan-Protestant rejection of religious enthusiasm. Smitten reveals the sexual disruptions and subsequent domestication of religion during the Second Great Awakening.

Download or read book An Ordered Love written by Louis J. Kern and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Ordered Love is the first detailed study of sex roles in the utopian communities that proposed alternatives to monogamous marriage: The Shakers (1779-1890), the Mormons (1843-90), and the Oneida Community (1848-79). The lives of men and women changed substantially when they joined one of the utopian communities. Louis J. Kern challenges the commonly held belief that Mormon polygamy was uniformly downgrading to women and that Oneida pantagamy and Shaker celibacy were liberating for them. Rather, Kern asserts that changes in sexual behavior and roles for women occurred in ideological environments that assumed women were inferior and needed male guidance. An elemental distrust of women denied the Victorian belief in their moral superiority, attacked the sanctity of the maternal role, and institutionalized the dominance of men over women. These utopias accepted the revolutionary idea that the pleasure bond was the essence of marriage. They provided their members with a highly developed theological and ideological position that helped them cope with the ambiguities and anxieties they felt during a difficult transitional stage in social mores. Analysis of the theological doctrines of these communities indicates how pervasive sexual questions were in the minds of the utopians and how closely they were related to both reform (social perfection) and salvation (individual perfection). These communities saw sex as the point at which the demands of individual selfishness and the social requirements of self-sacrifice were in most open conflict. They did not offer their members sexual license, but rather they established ideals of sexual orderliness and moral stability and sought to provide a refuge from the rampant sexual anxieties of Victorian culture. Kern examines the critical importance of considerations of sexuality and sexual behavior in these communities, recognizing their value as indications of larger social and cultural tensions. Using the insights of history, psychology, and sociology, he investigates the relationships between the individual and society, ideology and behavior, and thought and action as expressed in the sexual life of these three communities. Previously unused manuscript sources on the Oneida Community and Shaker journals and daybooks reveal interesting and sometimes startling information on sexual behavior and attitudes.

Download or read book The Empire of the Mother written by Mary P. Ryan and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stimulating book is a comprehensive record of the antebellum period. It examines various aspects of social history and intellectual history of that period in the context of the 19th century's "cult of domesticity." The development of the ideology of domesticity in this period and its implications are clearly explored in this startling and important feminist work.

Download or read book New York s Burned over District written by Spencer W. McBride and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New York's Burned-over District, Spencer W. McBride and Jennifer Hull Dorsey invite readers to experience the early American revivals and reform movements through the eyes of the revivalists and the reformers themselves. Between 1790 and 1860, the mass migration of white settlers into New York State contributed to a historic Christian revival. This renewed spiritual interest and fervor occurred in particularly high concentration in central and western New York where men and women actively sought spiritual awakening and new religious affiliation. Contemporary observers referred to the region as "burnt" or "infected" with religious enthusiasm; historians now refer to as the Burned-over District. New York's Burned-over District highlights how Christian revivalism transformed the region into a critical hub of social reform in nineteenth-century America. An invaluable compendium of primary sources, this anthology revises standard interpretations of the Burned-over District and shows how the putative grassroots movements of the era were often coordinated and regulated by established religious leaders.

Download or read book Noyesism Unveiled a History of the Sect Self Styled Perfectionists written by Hubbard Eastman and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 edition. Excerpt: ...medicine, which was distributed among the sufferers, as most costly and invaluable. The effect was almost miraculous. 'Such as had not moved their limbs for a month before, were seen walking in the streets, sound, straight, and whole. Many, who declared that they had been rendered worse by all former remedies, recovered in a few days, to their inexpressible joy.'.. The remarkable cures celebrated as miracles in the Romish Church, by touching bones, relics, &c., all belong to the same class; and are well worth the student's attention, as illustrating the power of imagination over the body, and as showing the facility with which mankind may be duped by the crafty and designing. "Murat, king of Naples, received a letter from his wife, while absent in Bonaparte's celebrated Russian campaign, detailing some proceedings of his government, which he thought encroached upon the royal prerogative; and so great was the effect of jealousy, that before he had finished the letter, his whole skin became completely jaundiced.... A boy was once let down the side of a very high precipice in a basket, to rob an eagle's nest: while suspended some hundreds of feet above the rocky base, he was attacked by the eagle; and on cutting at the bird with the sword which he carried with him, he struck the rope by which he was suspended, and cut it nearly off; on drawing him up, his hair was found changed to white.... A widow in Paris, on learning that her daughter with her two children had thrown herself from an upper story of the house and was dashed in pieces, became in one night as black as a negro.... A Jew in France came in the dark, over a dangerous passage on a plank that lay over a brook, without harm; the next day, on viewing the perilous situation...

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Download or read book A Yankee Saint written by Robert Allerton Parker and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-27 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered to be one of the definitive biographies on John Humphrey Noyes, an American preacher, radical religious philosopher, and utopian socialist who founded the Putney, Oneida, and Wallingford Communities and is credited for having coined the term “free love”.

Download or read book Index to the Contents of the Vermont Historical Gazetteer written by Herbert W. Denio and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Secret History of Western Sexual Mysticism written by Arthur Versluis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to reveal the history of Western sexual mysticism • Reveals the secret sexual practices that have been used since ancient Greece to achieve mystical union with God • Details the sects and individuals who transmitted the radical sexual practices that orthodox Christianity never completely silenced • Distinguishes between sexual magic and sexual mysticism Beginning with the ancient Greek Mystery traditions, Gnosticism, and the practices in early Christianity, Arthur Versluis uncovers the secret line of Western sexual mysticism that, like the Tantra of the East, seeks transcendence or union with God through sexual practices. Throughout antiquity, and right into the present day, sexuality has played an important, if largely hidden, role in religious traditions and practices. This includes not only Christian but also kabbalistic and hermetic alchemical currents of sexual mysticism, many discussed together here for the first time. In the Mystery tradition of hieros gamos (sacred marriage) and the Gnostic tradition of spiritual marriage, we see the possibility of divine union in which sexual union is the principal sign or symbol. Key to these practices is the inner or archetypal union of above and below, the intermingling of the revelatory divine world with the mundane earthly one. Versluis shows that these secret currents of sexual mysticism helped fuel the rise of the troubadours and their erotic doctrine, the esoteric teachings of Jacob Böhme in the late 16th century, the 19th-century utopian communities of John Humphrey Noyes and Thomas Lake Harris, the free love movement of the 20th century, and the modern writings of Denis de Rougemont and Alan Watts.

Download or read book The Vermont Historical Gazetteer written by Abby Maria Hemenway and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Peculiar People written by J. Spencer Fluhman and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the U.S. Constitution guarantees the free exercise of religion, it does not specify what counts as a religion. From its founding in the 1830s, Mormonism, a homegrown American faith, drew thousands of converts but far more critics. In A Peculiar

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