Marilyn J.Westerkamp is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

• Chapter 1 Women, the Spirit, and the Reformation; Part 1 Part I The Puritan heritage; Chapter 2 Wives and mothers in the colonial New England landscape; Chapter 3 Prophesying women; Chapter 4 The devil's minions; Part 2 Part II The rise of evangelical religion; Chapter 5 Witnesses to the New Light; Chapter 6 Gender, revolution, and the Methodists; Chapter 7 Domestic piety; Chapter 8 The reformer's pulpit; Chapter 9 Voices and silence; Notes; Bibliographic essayWorks cited in bibliographic essay and key primary source reprints; Index;

'Its analysis of the changing interaction of women and religion suggests approaches and paradigms that are worthy of being tested by scholars throughout the North Atlantic world and beyond.' - Social History Bulletin1n'An excellent introduction to the recent literature dealing with its subject, while shedding valuable new light on the experience of women in the early modern period.' - Ecclesiastical History'Written in clear prose with convincing arguments, Women and Religion in Early America supplies scholars with a useful and timely resource.' - Janet Moore Lindman, Rowan University'Catherine A. Breckus's excellent monograph is the first to explore a forgotten worl of female evangelists.' - American Studies