ISBN:
9780231139465
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (291 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Gates, Ben [Rezension von: Finch, Martha L., Dissenting Bodies: Corporealities in Early New England] 2011
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Hesford, Walter Dissenting Bodies: Corporealities in Early New England by Martha L. Finch (review) 2011
Parallel Title:
Print version Dissenting Bodies : Corporealities in Early New England
DDC:
974.4/02
Keywords:
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Online-Publikation
Abstract:
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 settlers forced to
Description / Table of Contents:
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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