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The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)
Sarah Rivett
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Hardcover. Science of the Soul in Colonial New England Num Pages: 400 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 3JD; 3JF; HRCC2; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 688.
The Science of the Soul challenges long-standing notions of Puritan provincialism as antithetical to the Enlightenment. Sarah Rivett demonstrates that, instead, empiricism and natural philosophy combined with Puritanism to transform the scope of religious activity in colonial New England from the 1630s to the Great Awakening of the 1740s. In an unprecedented move, Puritan ministers from Thomas Shepard and John Eliot to Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards studied the human soul using the same systematic methods that philosophers applied to the study of nature. In particular, they considered the testimonies of tortured adolescent girls at the center of the Salem ... Read more
The Science of the Soul challenges long-standing notions of Puritan provincialism as antithetical to the Enlightenment. Sarah Rivett demonstrates that, instead, empiricism and natural philosophy combined with Puritanism to transform the scope of religious activity in colonial New England from the 1630s to the Great Awakening of the 1740s. In an unprecedented move, Puritan ministers from Thomas Shepard and John Eliot to Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards studied the human soul using the same systematic methods that philosophers applied to the study of nature. In particular, they considered the testimonies of tortured adolescent girls at the center of the Salem ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Series
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807835241
SKU
V9780807835241
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About Sarah Rivett
Sarah Rivett is assistant professor of English at Princeton University.
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