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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Part I: Theory and language. Conversion, free will, and the affections in eighteenth-century New England / Mark Valeri -- Affections : "what's love got to do with it?" : a response to Mark Valeri / Joanna Brooks -- Language of belief : religious conversion in eighteenth-century Iroquoia / Scott Manning Stevens -- Tongue is only an interpreter of the heart : translating religious affections : a response to Scott Manning Stevens / Caroline Wiggington -- Part II: Mind, body, and experience. This seed is God : halluncinogenic plants, syncretism, and the transformation of religious affections in Colonial Mexico / Melissa Frost -- Local devotions in New Spain : a response to Melissa Frost / Stephanie Kirk -- Working down a bad spirit : slavery, emotion, and the inner Christ in the early South / Jon Sensbach -- Bad spirits : facing fear on the plantation : a response to Jon Sensbach / Kathleen Donegan -- Afterword. Messy entanglements / Barbara H. Rosenwein. |
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"In 1746, Jonathan Edwards described his philosophy on the process of Christian conversion in A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections. For Edwards, a strict Congregationalist, true conversion is accompanied by a new heart and yields humility, forgiveness, and love-affections that work a change in the person's nature. But, how did other early American communities understand religious affections and come to recognize their manifestation? Feeling Godly brings together well-known and highly regarded scholars of early American history and literature, Native American studies, African American history, and religious studies to investigate the shape, feel, look, theology, and influence of religious affections in early American sites of contact with and between Christians. While remaining focused on the question of religious affections, these essays span a wide range of early North American cultures, affiliations, practices, and devotions, and enable a comparative approach that draws together a history of emotions with a history of religion. In addition to the volume editors, this collection includes essays from Joanna Brooks, Kathleen Donegan, Melissa Frost, Stephanie Kirk, Jon Sensbach, Scott Manning Stevens, and Mark Valeri, with an afterword by Barbara H. Rosenwein"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Conversion -- Christianity -- History.
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Conversion -- Christianity. |
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History. |
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Emotions -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History.
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Emotions -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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North America -- Church history.
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North America. |
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Church history. |
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RELIGION / General. |
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Electronic books.
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Church history.
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History.
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Wigginton, Caroline, editor.
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Van Engen, Abram C., 1981- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Feeling godly Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2021] 9781625345905 (DLC) 2020053363 |
| ISBN |
9781613768471 (ebook) |
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1613768478 (ebook) |
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9781613768464 (ebook) |
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161376846X (ebook) |
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9781625345905 (paperback) |
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1625345909 (paperback) |
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9781625345912 (hardcover) |
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1625345917 (hardcover) |
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