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Dissenting bodies : corporealities in early New England /

For the Puritan separatists of seventeenth-century New England, ""godliness, "" as manifested by the body, was the sign of election, and the body, with its material demands and metaphorical significance, became the axis upon which all colonial activity and religious meaning turne...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Finch, Martha L.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010.
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Table des matières:
  • Introduction: embodying godliness
  • Massasoit's stool and Wituwamat's head : body encounters
  • A banquet in the wilderness : bodies and the environment
  • As on a hill : public bodies
  • The true and visible church : the body of Christ
  • As in a mirror : domestic bodies.