303 P - Women Creating Religious Practice

Sunday, June 4, 2017: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM
BRESL 111 (Hofstra University)
Chair:
Gale Kenny, Barnard College
"We always say that reason must be uppermost...:" Religious Choice and Rational Thought in the Lives of Catholic Convert Women
Erin Bartram, University of Hartford
"Crimes against God and Our Discipline": Unruly Women, Gender, and the AME Church during the late Nineteenth-Century
Shalon Jasmine Hallager, University of Delaware

Session Abstract

This panel looks at women’s role in religion in 19th century America. Erin Bartram discusses women’s conversion to Roman Catholicism in New England, and how they defended their choice in a protestant-dominated society. Shalon Hallager looks at the transgressions and gender expectations of AME churchwomen in 1830s Philadelphia through one women who was accused of abortion. Ruby Johnson discusses the political activity of Mormon women in Utah, and their role in the debate over polygamy. All these papers examine how 19th century American women challenged and defined gender roles within religion.

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