TY  - BOOK
AU  - Petersen,Johanna Eleonora
AU  - Becker-Cantarino,Barbara
TI  - The life of Lady Johanna Eleonora Petersen, written by herself: pietism and women's autobiography in seventeenth-century Germany 
T2  - The other voice in early modern Europe
SN  - 9780226663005 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BR1653.P47 A3 2005eb
U1  - 273/.7B 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Petersen, Johanna Eleonora.
KW  - Pietism
KW  - Germany
KW  - Pietists
KW  - Biography
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Religious
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - History
KW  - Vrouwen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Piëtisme
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - რელიგია--
KW  - პიეტიზმი
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-134) and index
N2  - 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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