The evangelical conversion narrative : spiritual autobiography in early modern England.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, thousands of ordinary women and men experienced evangelical conversion and turned to a certain form of spiritual autobiography to make sense of their lives. This book traces the rise and progress of conversion narrative as a unique form of spiritual autob...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Series: | Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online. Religion module. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, thousands of ordinary women and men experienced evangelical conversion and turned to a certain form of spiritual autobiography to make sense of their lives. This book traces the rise and progress of conversion narrative as a unique form of spiritual autobiography in early modern England. After outlining the emergence of the genre in the seventeenth century and the revival of the form in the journals of the leaders of the Evangelical Revival, the central chapters of the book examine extensive archival sources to show the subtly different forms of narrative identity that appeared among Wesleyan Methodists, Moravians, Anglicans, Baptists, and others. Attentive to the unique voices of pastors and laypeople, women and men, Western and non-Western peoples, the book establishes the cultural conditions under which the genre proliferated. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (397 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-371) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0199245754 9780199245758 9781435633896 143563389X 9780191602436 0191602434 9786611906573 6611906576 0191529761 9780191529764 1281906573 9781281906571 |