Power and the pulpit in Puritan New England /
For years, scholars have attempted to understand the powerful hold that the sermon had upon the imagination of New England Puritans. In this book Emory Elliott puts forth a complex and striking thesis: that Puritan religious literature provided the myths and metaphors that helped the people to expre...
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| Aineistotyyppi: | Licensed eBooks |
| Kieli: | englanti |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[1975]
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| Sarja: | Princeton legacy library.
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| Linkit: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=946814 |
| Yhteenveto: | For years, scholars have attempted to understand the powerful hold that the sermon had upon the imagination of New England Puritans. In this book Emory Elliott puts forth a complex and striking thesis: that Puritan religious literature provided the myths and metaphors that helped the people to express their deepest doubts and fears, feelings created by their particular cultural situation and aroused by the crucial social events of seventeenth-century America. |
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| Ulkoasu: | 1 online resource (xi, 240 pages) |
| Aineistotyyppi: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-234) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400868209 1400868203 9780691617893 0691617899 069107206X 9780691072067 069107506X |