Document Type

Thesis

Date of Degree Completion

Spring 2014

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

History

Committee Chair

Brian Carroll

Second Committee Member

Daniel Herman

Third Committee Member

Karin Blair

Abstract

By comparing the way male ministers presented their faith in gendered terms during the First Great Awakening to the responses of women who embraced their doctrine, the study examines whether women gained autonomy from the evangelical emphasis on individual choice and responsibility. Primary sources were the foundation for the research and included sermons from the most prominent ministers of the era, Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield. Journals of women evangelicals were invaluable resources providing first hand accounts of the implications of gender roles and religious ideology in evangelicals' lives during and following the Great Awakening. The primary documents studied here predominantly cover the period between 1734 and 1787.

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