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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.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 140 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The other voice in early modern Europe
Other voice in early modern Europe.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-134) and 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.
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Language Translated from the German.
Subject Petersen, Johanna Eleonora.
Petersen, Johanna Eleonora.
Pietism -- Germany.
Pietism.
Germany.
Pietists -- Germany -- Biography.
Pietists.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Electronic books.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Added Author Becker-Cantarino, Barbara.
Added Title Leben Frauen Joh. Eleonora Petersen, Gebohrner von und zu Merlau. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004108434
Other Form: Print version: Petersen, Johanna Eleonora. Leben Frauen Joh. Eleonora Petersen, Gebohrner von und zu Merlau. English. Life of Lady Johanna Eleonora Petersen written by herself. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2005 0226662985 (DLC) 2004015884 (OCoLC)56011325
ISBN 9780226663005 (electronic book)
0226663000 (electronic book)
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9780226662992 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0226662993 (paperback ; alkaline paper)