Feeling godly : religious affections and Christian contact in early North America /
In 1746, Jonathan Edwards described his philosophy on the process of Christian conversion in A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections. For Edwards, a strict Congregationalist, true conversion is accompanied by a new heart and yields humility, forgiveness and love, affections that work a change in...
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: theory and language. Conversion, free will, and the affections in eighteenth-century New England / Mark Valeri
- The affections : "what's love got to do with it?" : a response to Mark Valeri / Joanna Brooks
- The language of belief : religious conversion in eighteenth-century Iroguoia / Scott Manning Stevens
- The tongue is only an interpreter of the heart : translating religious affections : a response to Scott Manning Stevens / Caroline Wiggington
- Part II: Mind, body, and experience. This seed is God : halluncinogenic plants, syncretism, and the transformation of religious affections in Colonial Mexico / Melissa Frost
- Local devotions in New Spain : a response to Melissa Frost / Stephanie Kirk
- Working down a bad spirit : slavery, emotion, and the inner Christ in the early South / Jon Sensbach
- Bad spirits : facing fear on the plantation : a response to Jon Sensbach / Kathleen Donegan
- Afterword. Messy entanglements / Barbara H. Rosenwein.