The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England /

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Rivett challenges notions of Puritan provincialism as antithetical to the Enlightenment and demonstrates that, instead, empiricism and natural philosophy combined with Puritanism to transform the scope of the religious activity in colonial New England from the 1630s to the Great Awakening of the 174...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rivett, Sarah
Autor Corporativo: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Puritaner
Naturphilosophie
Empirie
Puritans.
RELIGION > Christianity > Presbyterian.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Puritains.
Neuengland
New England.
New England > Church history > 18th century.
New England > Church history > 17th century.
Church history.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Evidence of grace
  • Congregations : masculine form and reluctant women in puritan testimony
  • Praying towns : conversion, empirical desire, and the Indian soul
  • Death beads: tokenography and the science of dying well
  • Witchcraft trials : the death of the devil and the specter of hypocrisy in 1692
  • Revivals : evangelical enlightenment
  • Conversion in America.

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