Spellbound : women and witchcraft in America /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Reis, Elizabeth, 1958-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources, 1998.
Series:Worlds of women ; 4.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The economic basis of witchcraft / Carol F. Karlsen
  • Female speech and other demons: witchcraft and wordcraft in early New England / Jane Kamensky
  • Gender and the meanings of confession in early New England / Elizabeth Reis
  • Dark Eve / Bernard Rosenthal
  • "The Devil will roar in me anon": the possession of Martha Roberson, Boston, 1741 / Kenneth P. Minkema
  • Seneca possessed: colonialism, witchcraft, and gender in the time of Handsome Lake / Matthew Dennis
  • Sojourner Truth's religion in her moment of Pentecostalism and witchcraft / Nell Irvin Painter
  • "Hoodoo? God do"? African American women and contested spirituality in the spiritual churches of New Orleans / David C. Estes
  • Red lilac of the Cayugas: traditional Indian laws and culture conflict in a witchcraft trial in Buffalo, New York, 1930 / Sidney L. Harring
  • Witchcraft as Goddess religion / Starhawk
  • Affinities and appropriations in feminist spirituality / Cynthia Eller
  • In whose image? misogynist trends in the construction of Goddess and woman / Linda Jencson.