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Feeling godly : religious affections and Christian contact in early North America /

"In 1746, Jonathan Edwards described his philosophy on the process of Christian conversion in A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections. For Edwards, a strict Congregationalist, true conversion is accompanied by a new heart and yields humility, forgiveness, and love-affections that work a chan...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wigginton, Caroline (Editor ), Van Engen, Abram C., 1981- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2021]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: Theory and language. Conversion, free will, and the affections in eighteenth-century New England / Mark Valeri
  • The affections : "what's love got to do with it?" : a response to Mark Valeri / Joanna Brooks
  • The language of belief : religious conversion in eighteenth-century Iroquoia / Scott Manning Stevens
  • The tongue is only an interpreter of the heart : translating religious affections : a response to Scott Manning Stevens / Caroline Wiggington
  • Part II: Mind, body, and experience. This seed is God : halluncinogenic plants, syncretism, and the transformation of religious affections in Colonial Mexico / Melissa Frost
  • Local devotions in New Spain : a response to Melissa Frost / Stephanie Kirk
  • Working down a bad spirit : slavery, emotion, and the inner Christ in the early South / Jon Sensbach
  • Bad spirits : facing fear on the plantation : a response to Jon Sensbach / Kathleen Donegan
  • Afterword. Messy entanglements / Barbara H. Rosenwein.