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The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England (Hardcover, New edition)
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The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
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The Science of the Soul challenges long-standing notions of Puritan
provincialism as antithetical to the Enlightenment. Sarah Rivett
demonstrates that, instead, empiricism and natural philosophy
combined with Puritanism to transform the scope of religious
activity in colonial New England from the 1630s to the Great
Awakening of the 1740s. In an unprecedented move, Puritan ministers
from Thomas Shepard and John Eliot to Cotton Mather and Jonathan
Edwards studied the human soul using the same systematic methods
that philosophers applied to the study of nature. In particular,
they considered the testimonies of tortured adolescent girls at the
center of the Salem witch trials, Native American converts, and
dying women as a source of material insight into the divine.
Conversions and deathbed speeches were thus scrutinized for
evidence of grace in a way that bridged the material and the
spiritual, the visible and the invisible, the worldly and the
divine. In this way, the ""science of the soul"" was as much a part
of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century natural philosophy as it was
part of post-Reformation theology. Rivett's account restores the
unity of religion and science in the early modern world and
highlights the role and importance of both to transatlantic
circuits of knowledge formation. | The Science of the Soul
challenges long-standing notions of Puritan provincialism as
antithetical to the Enlightenment. Sarah Rivett demonstrates that,
instead, empiricism and natural philosophy combined with Puritanism
to transform the scope of religious activity in colonial New
England from the 1630s to the Great Awakening of the 1740s.
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