Reading the Spiritual Worlds of Mary Prince
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23408203 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sue Thomas (0000-0002-6628-3328, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Pages | 86-103 |
| Publication date | 2025-05-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Cambridge Companion to Mary Prince (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/9781009259484.006 |
| OpenAlex | W4409716356 |
| ISBN | 9781009259484 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
The approach to reading the array of texts that now constitute the editions of The History of Mary Prince is both historical and literary critical, attentive to Caribbean and British evangelical contexts and the practices and vocabularies of Christian religious denominations. The interdisciplinary and archival reach of the reading of Mary Prince’s spiritual worlds deepens understandings of her plural religious identity, as well as the meanings of Moravianism and Christianity in her experience as represented in The History and its reception. The chapter demonstrates the connective role of readers and researchers in extending the contexts in which she is remembered and in drawing out more fully the provenances of supplementary historical materials in recent editions of The History .
Art · Linguistics · Psychoanalysis · Reading (process) · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Philosophy · Psychology
The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself
The Evangelical Conversion Narrative
Telling West Indian Lives
The ‘Glasgow King of Billingsgate’
Come Shouting to Zion
Moravian Women's Memoirs
A Civil Inconvenience”? The Vexed Question of Slave Marriage in the British West Indies
Surviving Secularization
Obeah and Other Powers
Legitimate acts and illegal encounters
| Highly cited | No |
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