| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 274 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-259) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) -- Social life and customs.
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Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) -- Social life and customs. |
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Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) |
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Massachusetts -- Religious life and customs.
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Massachusetts. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Finch, Martha L. Dissenting bodies. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010 (OCoLC)320799232 |
| ISBN |
9780231511384 (electronic book) |
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0231511388 (electronic book) |
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0231139462 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780231139465 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
| Music No. |
EB00639516 Recorded Books |
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