The Rivett, Sarah.creatorOmohundro Institute of Early American History & CulturetextbibliographyElectronic books.Church history.ncu2011monographiceng1 online resource (x, 364 pages) : illustrationsRivett 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.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.Sarah Rivett.Includes bibliographical references and index.n-usn--PuritansNew EnglandChurch history17th centuryNew EnglandChurch history18th centuryHISTORYUnited StatesColonial Period (1600-1775)PuritansNew EnglandEmpirieNaturphilosophiePuritanerNeuenglandRELIGION / Christianity / Presbyterian 1600 - 1799 fast BX9323 .R58 2011eb285/.9097409032Rivett, Sarah.(DLC) 2011028948(OCoLC)7110432689781469600789146960078122573/ctt62j62 JSTORhttp://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807838709_Rivetthttp://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=965142http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807838709_Rivetthttp://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=965142JSTOR13103120200709060338.0ocn861793359eng