Sarah Osborn's world : the rise of evangelical Christianity in early America /
Brekus, Catherine A.
Sarah Osborn's world : the rise of evangelical Christianity in early America / Catherine A. Brekus. - New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2013. - 1 online resource (xv, 432 pages) : illustrations - New directions in narrative history . - New directions in narrative history. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. I. Memoir -- Never despair -- Name of Christ -- Afflicted low condition -- Amazing Grace -- pt. II. Diaries and letters (1744-1796) -- Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away (1744) -- No imaginary thing (1753-1755) -- Pinching poverty (1756-1758) -- Love thy neighbor (1759-1763) -- Jordan overflowing (1765-1774) -- Latter days (1775-1787) -- Open vision (1796) -- Epilogue: A Protestant saint.
In 1743, sitting quietly with pen in hand, Sarah Osborn pondered how to tell the story of her life, how to make sense of both her spiritual awakening and the sudden destitution of her family. Remarkably, the memoir she created that year survives today, as do more than two thousand additional pages she composed over the following three decades. Sarah Osborn's World is the first book to mine this remarkable woman's prolific personal and spiritual record. Catherine Brekus recovers the largely forgotten story of Sarah Osborn's life as one of the most charismatic female religious leaders of her time, while also connecting her captivating story to the rising evangelical movement in eighteenth-century America. A schoolteacher in Rhode Island, a wife, and a mother, Sarah Osborn led a remarkable revival in the 1760s that brought hundreds of people, including many slaves, to her house each week. Her extensive written record -- encompassing issues ranging from the desire to be "born again" to a suspicion of capitalism -- provides a unique vantage point from which to view the emergence of evangelicalism. Brekus sets Sarah Osborn's experience in the context of her revivalist era and expands our understanding of the birth of the evangelical movement -- a movement that transformed Protestantism in the decades before the American Revolution. - Publisher.
English.
9780300188325 0300188323
10.12987/9780300188325 doi
22573/ctt2zxmz0 JSTOR 567E20C1-758E-4285-BE2F-BE871D51C045 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Osborn, Sarah, 1714-1796.
Osborn, Sarah, 1714-1796
1700-1799
Christian biography--United States.
Christian women--Rhode Island--Biography.
Evangelists--Rhode Island--Biography.
Evangelical Revival--United States--18th century.
Biographies chrétiennes--États-Unis.
Chrétiennes--Rhode Island--Biographies.
Prédicateurs--Rhode Island--Biographies.
Renouveau évangélique--États-Unis--18e siècle.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Religious.
RELIGION--Christianity--History.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Women.
Christian biography
Christian women
Evangelical Revival
Evangelists
Christianity.
Philosophy & Religion.
Religion.
Rhode Island
United States
Biographies
dissertations.
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
BR1725.O7 / B74 2013eb
277.3/07092 B
Sarah Osborn's world : the rise of evangelical Christianity in early America / Catherine A. Brekus. - New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2013. - 1 online resource (xv, 432 pages) : illustrations - New directions in narrative history . - New directions in narrative history. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. I. Memoir -- Never despair -- Name of Christ -- Afflicted low condition -- Amazing Grace -- pt. II. Diaries and letters (1744-1796) -- Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away (1744) -- No imaginary thing (1753-1755) -- Pinching poverty (1756-1758) -- Love thy neighbor (1759-1763) -- Jordan overflowing (1765-1774) -- Latter days (1775-1787) -- Open vision (1796) -- Epilogue: A Protestant saint.
In 1743, sitting quietly with pen in hand, Sarah Osborn pondered how to tell the story of her life, how to make sense of both her spiritual awakening and the sudden destitution of her family. Remarkably, the memoir she created that year survives today, as do more than two thousand additional pages she composed over the following three decades. Sarah Osborn's World is the first book to mine this remarkable woman's prolific personal and spiritual record. Catherine Brekus recovers the largely forgotten story of Sarah Osborn's life as one of the most charismatic female religious leaders of her time, while also connecting her captivating story to the rising evangelical movement in eighteenth-century America. A schoolteacher in Rhode Island, a wife, and a mother, Sarah Osborn led a remarkable revival in the 1760s that brought hundreds of people, including many slaves, to her house each week. Her extensive written record -- encompassing issues ranging from the desire to be "born again" to a suspicion of capitalism -- provides a unique vantage point from which to view the emergence of evangelicalism. Brekus sets Sarah Osborn's experience in the context of her revivalist era and expands our understanding of the birth of the evangelical movement -- a movement that transformed Protestantism in the decades before the American Revolution. - Publisher.
English.
9780300188325 0300188323
10.12987/9780300188325 doi
22573/ctt2zxmz0 JSTOR 567E20C1-758E-4285-BE2F-BE871D51C045 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Osborn, Sarah, 1714-1796.
Osborn, Sarah, 1714-1796
1700-1799
Christian biography--United States.
Christian women--Rhode Island--Biography.
Evangelists--Rhode Island--Biography.
Evangelical Revival--United States--18th century.
Biographies chrétiennes--États-Unis.
Chrétiennes--Rhode Island--Biographies.
Prédicateurs--Rhode Island--Biographies.
Renouveau évangélique--États-Unis--18e siècle.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Religious.
RELIGION--Christianity--History.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Women.
Christian biography
Christian women
Evangelical Revival
Evangelists
Christianity.
Philosophy & Religion.
Religion.
Rhode Island
United States
Biographies
dissertations.
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
BR1725.O7 / B74 2013eb
277.3/07092 B