Dissenting bodies : corporealities in early New England

Dissenting bodies : corporealities in early New England / Martha L. Finch.

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 turne...

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Main Author: Finch, Martha L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
1600-1699
Human body > Social aspects > Massachusetts > History > 17th century.
Human body > Massachusetts > Religious aspects > History > 17th century.
Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) > Social life and customs.
British Americans > Massachusetts > History > 17th century.
Protestants > Massachusetts > History > 17th century.
Community life > Massachusetts > History > 17th century.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
RELIGION > Christianity > Calvinist.
Race relations
Protestants
Manners and customs
Community life
British Americans
Human body > Religious aspects
Human body > Social aspects
Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) > Social life and customs
Massachusetts > History > New Plymouth, 1620-1691.
Massachusetts > Social life and customs > 17th century.
Massachusetts > Religious life and customs.
Massachusetts > Race relations > History > 17th century.
Massachusetts
History
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