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Mary Lyon and the Mount Holyoke Missionaries Recent titles in RELIGION IN AMERICA SERIES Harry S. Stout, General Editor SUBMITTING TO FREEDOM KEEPERS OF THE COVENANT The Religious Vision of William James Frontier Missions and the Decline of Con- Bennett Ramsey gregationalism, 1774-1818 James R. Rohrer OLD SHIP OF zION The Afro-Baptist Ritual in the African SAINTS IN EXILE Diaspora The Holiness-Pentecostal Experience in Af- Walter F. Pitts rican American Religion and Culture Cheryl J. Sanders AMERICAN TRANSCENDENTALISM AND ASIAN RELIGIONS DEMOCRATIC RELIGION Arthur Vcrsluis Freedom, Authority, and Church Disci- pline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900 CHURCH PEOPLE IN THE Gregory A. Wills STRUGGLE The National Council of Churches THE SOUL OF DEVELOPMENT and the Black Freedom Movement, Biblical Christianity and Economic 1950-1970 Transformation in Guatemala James F. Findlay, Jr. Amy L. 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No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Porterfield, Amanda, 1947- Mary Lyon and the Mount Holyoke Holyoke missionaries /Amanda Porterfield. p. cm. — (Religion in America scries) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-19-511301-2 i. Mount Holyoke College. 2. Lyon, Mary, 1797-1849 —Influence. 5. Women missionaries — Education (Higher) —Massachusetts —Holyoke —History—i9th century. 4. Women missionaries —United States- History— 19th century 5. Missionaries —United States —History—19th century. 6. Women missionaries — History —19th century. I. Title. II. Series: Religion in America series (Oxford University Press) BVz4i6.M6P67 1997 266'.023730082 —dcii 96-45425 135798642 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper For my mother Emily W. Porterfleld And in memory oj my father John B. Porterfield 1916—1996 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments any people helped in the writing of this book. I am especially grateful to M 0 Mount Holyoke College Archivist Patricia J. Albright for her help from the outset to the final stages of the project, and for her unflagging patience and good cheer. Special thanks to Robert F. Berkey and Rowland A. Sherrill, who read drafts of the entire manuscript and offered good encouragement and advice. Thanks, too, to Joseph A. Conforti and David Hackett for their fine comments on chapter i, and to Jan Shipps for her help in conceptualizing the communitarian aspect of Mount Holyoke in chapter 2. Thanks to Yvonne Had- dad and Edward L. Queen II for comments on Islam and Nestorian Christianity, and to Manorama Barnabas, Paul B. Courtright, Ann Grodzins Gold, William J. Jackson, Plamthodathil S. Jacob, and H. Daniel Smith for their efforts to help me understand nineteenth-century Maharashtra. William R. Hutchison, David Chidester, Dana Robert, Chris Lowe, and Gabrielc B. Sperling contrib- uted to the chapter on missionary influence in Natal, as did a number of fine colleagues at IUPUI—Thomas J. Davis, William J. Jackson, Jeffrey Kinney, Missy Dean Kubitschek, Miriam Z. Langsam, E. Theodore Mullen Jr., Jane E. Schultz, Susan Shepherd, James F. Smurl, and Marianne Wokeck. Kimberly Long provided helpful assistance in preparing the manuscript. I am grateful to my parents for working hard to send me to Mount Holyoke as a college student, and wish my father had lived to see the publication of this book. Thanks to Mark and Nick Kline for their daily love and support. This page intentionally left blank Contents Introduction 3 ONE The Place of Antebellum Missionary Women in American Religious History 11 The Puritan Roots of Republican Motherhood 15 The Role of New Divinity Thought in Motivating Enthusiasm for Foreign Missions 16 Distinctions between Religious and Political Imperialism 19 The Importance and Distinctiveness of Antebellum Missionary Women 21 The Myth of Puritanism's Morbidity 24 The Feminist Distaste for Self-Denial 26 TWO Religious Community at Mount Holyoke 29 Education and Teaching as Means of Negotiating Social Stress and Change 50 Mount Holyoke as an Instance of Antebellum Communitarianism 32 Mount Holyoke Compared to the Oneida Community 33 The Role of Community In Shaping Modem Society in the United States 35
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