Cynthia Lynn Lyerly
Biographic Data
| ID | 1558027 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cynthia Lynn Lyerly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cynthia Lynn |
| FAMILY NAME | Lyerly |
| SIGNATURE | LYERLY C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Richmond |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Tale of Two Patriarchs; or, How a Eunuch and a Wife Created a Family in the Church
This article uses the spiritual friendship of Jeremiah Minter, Methodist preacher, and Sarah Jones, a planter's wife, as a window into southern patriarchal norms and the alternative affective families created in evangelical churches. Their correspondence was erotically charged, but religious devotion offered them a language in which to safely recast their ardor into piety. Minter, by rejecting slavery and the culture of honor and by choosing to b…
The Life and Times of Martha Laurens Ramsay, 1759-1811
The Methodists and Revolutionary America, 1760-1800: The Shaping of an Evangelical Culture
Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770-1810
This book looks at the role of Methodism in the Revolutionary and early national South. When the Methodists first arrived in the South, Lyerly argues, they were critics of the social order. By advocating values traditionally deemed feminine, treating white women and African Americans with considerable equality, and preaching against wealth and slavery, Methodism challenged Southern secular mores. For this reason, Methodism evoked sustained opposi…
Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770-1810
Journal Article Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770–1810. By Cynthia Lynn Lyerly (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. viii, 251 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-19-511429-9.) Get access Beth Barton Schweiger Beth Barton Schweiger Richmond, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2000, Pages 1769–1770, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567622 Published: 01 March 2000
Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770-1810
The Root of All Evil: The Protestant Clergy and the Economic Mind of the Old South
A Tale of Two Patriarchs; or, How a Eunuch and a Wife Created a Family in the Church
This article uses the spiritual friendship of Jeremiah Minter, Methodist preacher, and Sarah Jones, a planter's wife, as a window into southern patriarchal norms and the alternative affective families created in evangelical churches. Their correspondence was erotically charged, but religious devotion offered them a language in which to safely recast their ardor into piety. Minter, by rejecting slavery and the culture of honor and by choosing to b…
Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770-1810
The Root of All Evil: The Protestant Clergy and the Economic Mind of the Old South
Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770-1810
This book looks at the role of Methodism in the Revolutionary and early national South. When the Methodists first arrived in the South, Lyerly argues, they were critics of the social order. By advocating values traditionally deemed feminine, treating white women and African Americans with considerable equality, and preaching against wealth and slavery, Methodism challenged Southern secular mores. For this reason, Methodism evoked sustained opposi…
Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770-1810
Journal Article Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770–1810. By Cynthia Lynn Lyerly (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. viii, 251 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-19-511429-9.) Get access Beth Barton Schweiger Beth Barton Schweiger Richmond, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2000, Pages 1769–1770, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567622 Published: 01 March 2000
The Methodists and Revolutionary America, 1760-1800: The Shaping of an Evangelical Culture
The Life and Times of Martha Laurens Ramsay, 1759-1811
A Tale of Two Patriarchs; or, How a Eunuch and a Wife Created a Family in the Church
This article uses the spiritual friendship of Jeremiah Minter, Methodist preacher, and Sarah Jones, a planter's wife, as a window into southern patriarchal norms and the alternative affective families created in evangelical churches. Their correspondence was erotically charged, but religious devotion offered them a language in which to safely recast their ardor into piety. Minter, by rejecting slavery and the culture of honor and by choosing to b…
American Constitutional Law and Politics (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment (4 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Methodism (3 works) · Mormonism, Religion, and History (3 works) · Religious studies (3 works) · Theology (3 works)