The science of the soul in colonial New England / Sarah Rivett.
Rivett 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 174...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,
[2011]
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| Summary: | Rivett 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 364 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469600789 1469600781 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |