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Rivett, Sarah.

The science of the soul in colonial New England / Sarah Rivett. - 1 online resource (x, 364 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Evidence of grace -- Congregations : masculine form and reluctant women in puritan testimony -- Praying towns : conversion, empirical desire, and the Indian soul -- Death beads: tokenography and the science of dying well -- Witchcraft trials : the death of the devil and the specter of hypocrisy in 1692 -- Revivals : evangelical enlightenment -- Conversion in America.

Rivett challenges notions of Puritan provincialism as antithetical to the Enlightenment and demonstrates that, instead, empiricism and natural philosophy combined with Puritanism to transform the scope of the religious activity in colonial New England from the 1630s to the Great Awakening of the 1740s.

ISBN: 9781469600789 1469600781

Source: 22573/ctt62j62 JSTOR

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1600 - 1799

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Puritans.
HISTORY--Colonial Period (1600-1775)--United States
Puritans.
Empirie.
Naturphilosophie.
Puritaner.
RELIGION / Christianity / Presbyterian

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
New England--Church history--17th century.
New England--Church history--18th century.
New England.
Neuengland.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Church history.

LC Class. No.: BX9323 / .R58 2011eb

Dewey Class. No.: 285/.9097409032