New Light Family Values: Sex & Salvation in Revolutionary New England
Tue, Jan 26
|Oneida Community Mansion House
A Communities in Conversation Program
Time & Location
Jan 26, 2027, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Oneida Community Mansion House, 170 Kenwood Ave, Oneida, NY 13421, USA
About the Event
New Light Family Values: Sex & Salvation in Revolutionary New England
During the past half century, Protestant evangelical Christianity has become synonymous with conservative social issues. From abortion to same-sex marriage, contemporary evangelicals seem singularly focused on regulating the reproductive bodies and sexual practices of their neighbors and fellow citizens. But why? What are the historical roots of this distinctive cultural worldview?
American evangelicals haven’t always been conservatives. Join award-winning historian Douglas Winiarski as we look back to the Revolutionary era in which the most radical evangelicals questioned everything: family structures, gender roles, sexual identities, and marital arrangements.
In this illustrated presentation, Winiarski argues that the people called “New Lights” in New England—progenitors of the modern evangelical movement—experienced problems involving the dualism of mind and body with greater intensity than other kinds of Protestants. If the Whitefieldian new-birth experience engendered a sense of certitude among revival converts about…
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