Beyond the Pulpit: Women’s Rhetorical Roles in the Antebellum Religious Press

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165 index African Methodist Episcopal Church, 8, 49 advocacy, women’s public, 4, 10, 15, 80, 82 American Female Moral Reform Society, 129, 153n5 American Sunday School Union, 91 Anderson, Benedict, 11, 22, 59, 137n34 Andrews, Dee, 1, 9, 141n11 Anglican, 8, 20, 22, 48 Arminian Magazine (American), 21 Arminian Magazine (British), 19, 21 Aronson, Amy Beth, 106, 111, 116 Asbury, Francis, 21, 56, 139n12 assistant ministers, 4, 96–99 awakening, 27–29 Bangs, Nathan, 56–57, 92 Beecher, Catherine, 65, 82, 113, 130 benefactors, 4, 71, 76; bequests, 74; material donations, 73–74 benevolent organizations, 10, 16, 77, 80, 87, 95, 103–4, 131–32, 146n29; business/leadership skills, women’s acquisition of, 46, 83–84, 86, 147n39; reports, 80, 84–86 benevolent organizers, 4, 16, 54, 80, 88, 109; and benevolent/charitable endeavors, 73–74, 76, 80–82, 86, 95; and careers, 86 Bennett, Paula, 119 Bible society, 57, 76, 95 Bizzell, Patricia, 2, 7, 68 Boylan, Anne, 16, 89, 92 Braude, Ann, 6, 132 Brekus, Catherine, 2, 7, 9, 16, 48, 103 Brown, Candy, 23, 25, 59–60 Buchanan, Lindal, 50 Burton, Vicki Tolar, 19, 45, 137n28, 142n25, 148n68 Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs, 7 camp meetings/revivals, 5–6, 22, 54, 59, 72, 99 Carey, James, 24 Cary, Alice, 106–7, 119 charitable organizations/societies. See benevolent organizations Christian Advocate (CA): audiences/ popularity, 53, 56–58, 72, 137n35; columns, 54, 58–59; contents, 58–59; editors, 57, 61, 107; inception, 55–56; indeX 166 Ladies’ Department (see Ladies’ Department); purpose, 58, 61; regional papers, 56, 143n6 circuit, 6, 11, 43–44, 142n16 class leader, 5–6, 93, 96, 141n11, 141n16; female, 9, 42; laymen, 37, 42 class meetings, 6, 22, 48, 92, 99, 141n16 collecting money. See fundraising Collins, Vicki Tolar, 2, 13, 38, 135n1 Congregational, 5, 20, 43, 48, 100 Connors, Robert, 17, 50 consolation, 31–32 conversion, 24, 26–29, 33, 39, 41–43, 63, 67; definition, 27; eleventh-hour, 32–33, 43; narratives, 24, 27; Native American, 87; stages, 27–29, 140n35; Sunday school, 92–95 conviction, 27–29 Cott, Nancy, 60, 62, 146n29 cult of true womanhood, 60 Daniell, Beth, 9 deathbed pulpit, 38–40, 133. See also exhortations, women’s deathbed de Tocqueville, Alexis, 55, 59 domestic canon: Methodism’s embrace of, 61; ministers dispensing, 55, 61; and religion 66–67 domestic evangelism, 63, 72 domestic manager, 65, 99 domestication of religion, 66–67, 69 Douglas, Ann, 14, 45 dress, prescriptions for women’s, 67–69 dying well/holy deaths, 18–19, 24–26, 29–32, 35, 40, 47; consolation, 31–32; death renamed, 34–35; deathbed inquiries, 31; deathbed scenes, 39, 42, 46, 48; dying countenance, 32; last words, 32 emotional appeals, 33, 36, 43–49, 52 Endres, Kathleen, 107 Epstein, Barbara, 66, 73 ethos, 36, 38, 68, 84–85, 108 exegesis, women’s, 122–25, 129–30 exhortations, women’s deathbed, 36, 39–40, 48–49, 51–52 exhorters: definition of, 49; licensed, 49, 141n16; women, 2, 9, 49 female education. See women’s education female influence, 60, 62–63, 113, 122 female ministers. See women preachers Foucault, Michel, 54 free grace, 5 free will, 5, 24, 28, 32, 129 fundraising, 15, 75–76, 83, 85, 99; collecting money, 10, 76, 70–71, 81–82; fundraisers, 4, 16, 80, 103 Gale, Amelia, 70–71, 73, 76 gender/gendered: 6, 28, 39–41, 43, 47, 67–68, 77, 106, 122; boundaries, 60; depictions, 13, 74; norms, 51, 71; roles, 39–40, 54, 73, 88; space, 7, 14, 52, 55, 84; spheres, 60, 72 General Conference, 10, 21, 23, 56, 137n29 Genette, Gérard, 25, 137n39 Gillespie, Joanna Bowen, 20, 118, 125 Ginzberg, Lori, 16, 67, 80, 146n25, 147n39 Godey’s Lady’s Book, 107, 110–11, 117, 150n9 Grimké, Angelina, 128–30 Grimké, Sarah, 129–30 Groover, Kristina, 120 Hale, Sarah, 106, 110–11, 117 Hamline, L. L., 108–9 Hardesty, Nancy, 6–7, 128 Harper and Brothers, 116 Hatch, Nathan, 5, 8, 11, 44, 56 Heck, Barbara, 4, 5, 135n8 Herzberg, Bruce, 2, 7 Heyrman, Christine, 28 indeX 167 Hill, Patricia, 16, 103 Hobbs, Catherine, 109 iconic ministers, women as, 4, 38, 47, 52, 69 icons, women as holy/religious, 37, 42, 47–48, 141n3 instruments, individuals acting as, 37, 42–45, 97, 141n3 interpretive community, 24, 139n25 itinerant ministers: 43, 141n16; as colporteurs, 11, 57; as martyrs, 43–44; taking the church to the people, 5–6, 43...