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
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Human body -- Massachusetts -- Religious aspects -- History -- 17th century
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Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) -- Social life and customs
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British Americans -- Massachusetts -- History -- 17th century
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Protestants -- Massachusetts -- History -- 17th century
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Community life -- Massachusetts -- History -- 17th century
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Calvinist.
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Race relations
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Protestants
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Manners and customs
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Community life
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British Americans
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Human body -- Religious aspects
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Human body -- Social aspects
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Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) -- Social life and customs
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SUBJECT |
Massachusetts -- History -- New Plymouth, 1620-1691.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85081926
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Massachusetts -- Social life and customs -- 17th century
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Massachusetts -- Religious life and customs
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Massachusetts -- Race relations -- History -- 17th century
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Subject |
Massachusetts
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2009017741 |
ISBN |
9780231511384 |
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0231511388 |
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