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Author Petersen, Johanna Eleonora.

Title The life of Lady Johanna Eleonora Petersen, written by herself : pietism and women's autobiography in seventeenth-century Germany / edited and translated by Barbara Becker-Cantarino
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 140 pages)
Series The other voice in early modern Europe
Other voice in early modern Europe.
Contents Acknowledgments; Series Editors' Introduction; Johanna Eleonora Petersen, née von und zu Merlau (1644-1724): From Noblewoman to Radical Pietist; Volume Editor's Bibliography; The Life of Lady Johanna Eleonora Petersen, née von und zu Merlau, Wife of Dr. Johann Wilhelm Petersen, Written by Herself; Appendix A; Appendix B; Series Editors' Bibliography; Index
Summary In a time when the Pauline dictum decreed that women be silent in matters of the Church, Johanna Eleonora Petersen (1644?1724) was a pioneering author of religious books, insisting on her right to speak out as a believer above her male counterparts. Publishing her readings of the Gospels and the Book of Revelation as well as her thoughts on theology in general, Petersen and her writings created controversy, especially in orthodox circles, and she became a voice for the radical Pietists?those most at odds with Lutheran ministers and their teachings. But she defended her lay religious calling an
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-134) and index
Notes Translated from the German
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Subject Petersen, Johanna Eleonora.
SUBJECT Petersen, Johanna Eleonora fast
Subject Pietism -- Germany
Pietists -- Germany -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Religious.
RELIGION -- History.
Pietism
Pietists
Vrouwen.
Piëtisme.
Germany
Genre/Form Electronic books
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Becker-Cantarino, Barbara.
ISBN 9780226663005
0226663000
9780226662985
0226662985
9780226662992
0226662993
Other Titles Leben Frauen Joh. Eleonora Petersen, Gebohrner von und zu Merlau. English