Passion of Anne Hutchinson - An Extraordinary Woman, Puritan Patriarchs, World They Made Lost

Gifted with an extraordinary mind, an intense spiritual passion, and an awesome charisma, Anne Hutchinson arrived in Massachusetts in 1634 and established herself as a leader of women. She held private religious meetings in her home and later began to deliver her own sermons. She inspired a large number of disciples who challenged the colony's political, social, and ideological foundations, and scarcely three years after her arrival, Hutchinson was recognized as the primary disrupter of consensus and order - she was then banished as a heretic. The Passion of Anne Hutchinson examines issues of gender, patriarchical order, and empowerment in Puritan society through the story of a woman who sought to preach, inspire, and disrupt.

List of contents

• 1: Prologue: Anne Hutchinson and the Controversy


• 2: The Puritan Experiment


• 3: Helpmeets, Mothers, and Midwives among the Patriarchs


• 4: Sectarian Mysticism and Spiritual Power


• 5: Prophesying Women and the Gifts of Spirit


• 6: Gracious Disciples and Frightened Magistrates


• 7: A Froward Woman Beloved of God

About the author

Marilyn J. Westerkamp is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Triumph of the Laity: Scots-Irish Piety and the Great Awakening and Women and Religion in Early America, 1600-1850

Additional text

Thoroughly researched and insightful book.

Product details

• Authors: Marilyn J. Westerkamp, Marilyn J. (Professor of History Westerkamp, Westerkamp Marilyn J.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.10.2021
• EAN: 9780197506905
• ISBN: 978-0-19-750690-5
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / General, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Religion: general, c 1500 onwards to present day, History of the Americas, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards