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Author Finch, Martha L

Title Dissenting bodies : corporealities in early New England / Martha L. Finch
Published New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 274 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents 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
Summary 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 turned. Drawing on literature, documents, and critical studies of embodiment as practiced in the New England colonies, Martha L. Finch launches a fascinating investigation into the scientific, theological, and cultural conceptions of corporeality at a pivotal moment in Anglo-Protestant history. Not only were se
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-259) and index
Notes In English
Subject Human body -- Social aspects -- Massachusetts -- History -- 17th century
Human body -- Massachusetts -- Religious aspects -- History -- 17th century
Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) -- Social life and customs
British Americans -- Massachusetts -- History -- 17th century
Protestants -- Massachusetts -- History -- 17th century
Community life -- Massachusetts -- History -- 17th century
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Calvinist.
Race relations
Protestants
Manners and customs
Community life
British Americans
Human body -- Religious aspects
Human body -- Social aspects
Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) -- Social life and customs
SUBJECT Massachusetts -- History -- New Plymouth, 1620-1691. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85081926
Massachusetts -- Social life and customs -- 17th century
Massachusetts -- Religious life and customs
Massachusetts -- Race relations -- History -- 17th century
Subject Massachusetts
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009017741
ISBN 9780231511384
0231511388