Cast Down Abjection in America, 1700-1850

"Cast Down is a tour de force with its complex arguments about religion, race, gender, and pain in early America, its extensive theoretical engagement, and its choice of significant and diverse early American texts. It marks a critical contribution to scholarly understanding of religious discourse and the role it played in the demarcating and organizing of early American society from the colonial to the early national era." - Early American Literature

"Cast Down stands as part of a new wave in the cultural history of American religion. More than any other recent study, Miller's book explores the capacious realm of American Methodism and its variegated resources and tensions concerning race and gender throughout the nineteenth century. . . . Miller has given us a tremendously supple, beautifully written, and thought-provoking study." - American Historical Review

"Scholars interested in religion, the transatlantic, and race will find Cast Down to be a thought-provoking text that reconsiders the role of writing and sentimentality in the construction of religion and race." - Journal of Religion