Les dissidentes baptistes à travers les livres d’Église du xviie siècle anglais

This article examines some early Baptist Church Books from the second half of the seventeenth century. They have been generally neglected by historians because the records they contain are often imperfect, and the nature of the information varies so much from one book to the next. After a general pr...

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Main Author: Anne Dunan-Page
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Centre de Recherches Historiques 2009-07-01
Series:L'Atelier du CRH
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/acrh/1332
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description This article examines some early Baptist Church Books from the second half of the seventeenth century. They have been generally neglected by historians because the records they contain are often imperfect, and the nature of the information varies so much from one book to the next. After a general presentation of the pamphlet and satirical literature published against dissenting women, I show how this literature may be read in the light of the manuscript Church Books. In recent years, other kinds of evidence have encouraged historians towards a more optimistic view of women’s opportunities in the Baptist Churches. The Church Books present a much more sobering picture. When analysing the role women were playing in the congregations, or the rare instances when they were allowed to speak in public, it is possible to reveal a huge resistance from conservative ministers and elders towards female speaking. Even within the dissenting communities that are known to have welcomed women in their midst, female members did not entirely manage to circumvene the Biblical interdiction to speak in Churches.
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Les dissidentes baptistes à travers les livres d’Église du xviie siècle anglais
L'Atelier du CRH
Adamists
Baptists
Church Books
Congregationalists
Dissent
Pamphlet literature
title Les dissidentes baptistes à travers les livres d’Église du xviie siècle anglais
title_full Les dissidentes baptistes à travers les livres d’Église du xviie siècle anglais
title_fullStr Les dissidentes baptistes à travers les livres d’Église du xviie siècle anglais
title_full_unstemmed Les dissidentes baptistes à travers les livres d’Église du xviie siècle anglais
title_short Les dissidentes baptistes à travers les livres d’Église du xviie siècle anglais
title_sort les dissidentes baptistes a travers les livres d eglise du xviie siecle anglais
topic Adamists
Baptists
Church Books
Congregationalists
Dissent
Pamphlet literature
url https://journals.openedition.org/acrh/1332
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