Radical pietistic and renewal movements gave rise to a diverse number of communities throughout northern Europe starting in the late seventeenth century. Many groups practiced a conventicle-style piety, in which they held religious services in private settings such as houses. A distinctive feature of these semi-sequestered communities was the extent to which women took on active roles, sometimes to the point of leading and directing their fellow believers. Focusing on the Netherlandish mystic Antoinette Bourignon and the English Philadelphian Jane Lead, this article examines how these women adapted their religious, social, and domestic activity to meet the functions and demands of community leadership. It argues that Bourignon and Lead redefined and troubled the boundaries between their religious and domestic lives as they sought to practice an individual piety while also transforming private houses into sites of active communal religious life.

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“好玛莎？” 激进虔诚社区中的女性领导和家庭生活

从 17 世纪后期开始，激进的虔诚和复兴运动在整个北欧兴起了数量众多的社区。许多团体实行修道院式的虔诚，他们在房屋等私人场所举行宗教仪式。这些半隔离社区的一个显着特征是女性在多大程度上发挥了积极作用，有时甚至达到领导和指导她们的信徒同胞的程度。本文重点关注荷兰神秘主义者 Antoinette Bourignon 和英国费城人 Jane Lead，探讨这些女性如何调整其宗教、社交和家庭活动，以满足社区领导的职能和要求。