Dissenting Bodies : : Corporealities in Early New England /

Dissenting Bodies : : Corporealities in Early New England / / Martha Finch.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Finch, Martha,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 9 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Embodying Godliness
  • 1. Massasoit's Stool and Wituwamat's Head: Body Encounters
  • 2. A Banquet in the Wilderness: Bodies and the Environment
  • 3. As on a Hill: Public Bodies
  • 4. The True and Visible Church: The Body of Christ
  • 5. As in a Mirror: Domestic Bodies
  • Notes
  • Index

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