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1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 274 pages)
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illustrations, maps
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Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0231139462
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0231511388
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9780231139465
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9780231511384
Inhalt:
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
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-259) and index
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In English
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ISBN 0231139462
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ISBN 9780231139465
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Finch, Martha L Dissenting bodies New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010
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Englisch
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