Coming into communion : pastoral dialogues in colonial New England / Laura Henigman.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-225) and index.

To Love and Make a Lie: Narratives of Infanticide -- Clerical Anxiety and the Execution Sermon -- "One Word": Sexuality and Separation -- Competing Communities and the Erasure of Maternity -- The Pastoral Encounter: Maternity and Community in the Sermons of John Rogers -- The Passion of Esther Rogers: "Freedom of spirit, and liberty of speech" -- A Note on the Negro Lad -- "To Prevent Lives Being Lost": Community Responsibility and the Bastard Neonaticide Act -- Juries of Women -- Lessons of Caution for Young Sinners: Silencing a "Child of the Town" -- "A Witness against Myself": The Challenge of Reconnection through Maternity -- On Wedlock and the Birth of Children: the "Pious and Ingenious" Jane Colman Turell -- Piety or Ingenuity? -- Piety and Ingenuity: Jane Colman Turell and the Tradition of Women's Religious Poetry -- "The Voice Leisurely Ascends": Jane Colman Turell and Psalm Paraphrasing -- Come to the Marriage -- Benjamin Colman and Marriage: "Union by Vision" -- "Tho'ts on Matrimony": Jane Turell at Medford -- Coming into Communion: Jane Colman Turell and the Travailing Woman -- Aftermath -- Flowing and Reflowing: Dialogic Emanations -- The Danger of Narrative -- The Body Enspirited -- Sarah Edwards in Northampton.

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"By exploring the interrelationship between elite and popular religious culture in colonial New England, Coming into Communion shows that laywomen made active significant contributions, through the process of dialogue, to religious language and theology in the early eighteenth century. Case studies examine a variety of women, including the poet Jane Colman Turell, Sarah Edwards (wife of the prominent theologian), and a group of women whose voices are preserved in history because they were accused of killing their newborn babies. Henigman tells the stories of their interchanges with their ministers to show that these women subtly revised the language of the clergy, choosing different scripture texts and images to describe a more intimate relationship with God and a holistic sense of community."--BOOK JACKET.

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