A Tale of Two Patriarchs; or, How a Eunuch and a Wife Created a Family in the Church
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6079302 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cynthia Lynn Lyerly (Boston College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 490-509 |
| Publication date | 2003-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Family History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0363-1990 • E-ISSN: 1552-5473 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0363199003256929 |
| OpenAlex | W2067493594 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
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 become a “eunuch for the kingdom of heaven's sake,” and Jones, by being a spiritual leader, challenged family patriarchs and southern gender conventions. Through the Methodist Church, both formed fictive families that were loving and egalitarian and that supported and sustained them
Friendship · Heaven · Honor · Piety · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Wife · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment · Religious studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |