Search Results - "Puritans"

Confronting animal abuse law, criminology, and human-animal relationships / by Beirne, Piers

Table of Contents: “…understanding the Act Against Plowing by the Tayle (Ireland, 1635) -- The prosecution of animal cruelty in Puritan Massachusetts, 1636-1683 -- Towards a sociology of animal sexual assault -- Horse maiming and the sport of kings -- Is there a progression from animal abuse to interhuman violence?…”
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The trickster comes west Pan-African influence in early Black diasporan narratives / by M'Baye, Babacar, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…African and Puritan dimensions of Phillis Wheatley's poems and letters -- Pan-Africanism in Quobna Ottobah Cugoano's liberation discourse -- Pan-Africanism in Olaudah Equiano's interesting narrative -- Africanism and Methodism in the works of Elizabeth Hart Thwaites and Anne Hart Gilbert -- African and Caribbean patterns in Mary Prince's resistance.…”
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Increase and multiply governing cultural reproduction in early modern England / by Glimp, David

Table of Contents: “…"Making up people" : the English Commonwealth and the writing of populations -- Defending poetic generation : Sir Philip Sidney and the aesthetics of educational reproduction -- Staging government : Shakespearean theater and the government of cultural reproduction -- The educational genesis of men : puritan reform and John Milton's Of education -- Paradisal arithmetic : Paradise Lost and the genesis of populations.…”
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On creating a usable culture Margaret Mead and the emergence of American cosmopolitanism / by Molloy, Maureen, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…The problem of American culture -- The "jungle flapper" : civilization, repression, and the homogenous society -- "Lords of an empty creation" : masculinity, puritanism, and cultural stagnation -- "Every woman deviating from the code" : cultural lag, moral contagion, and social disintegration -- "Maladjustment of a worse order" : temperament, psychosexual misidentification, and the refuge of private life -- On creating a usable culture.…”
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The forgotten founders on religion and public life

Table of Contents: “…Gelles -- Samuel Adams : America's Puritan revolutionary / Gary Scott Smith -- Oliver Ellsworth's Calvinist vision of church and state in the early republic / William R. …”
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John Randolph of Roanoke by Johnson, David E., 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Keep your land -- Macbeth hath murdered sleep -- Ask my constituents -- Master of the house -- An evil daily magnifying -- Yazoo men -- The tertium quid -- Mystery of affection and faith -- House cynosure -- Of Roanoke -- An irreclaimable heretic -- Dying, sir, dying -- The moral authority of my heart -- Two souls -- A fig for the Constitution -- The puritan and the blackleg -- Remorse.…”
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When colleges sang the story of singing in American college life / by Winstead, J. Lloyd, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…College singing amid the Puritan culture, 1636-1700 -- Sacred and secular college singing, 1700-1800 -- Singing in student organizations, 1800-1850 -- The first college songbooks, 1850-1890 -- College singing at the turn of the century, 1890-1910 -- Warring, roaring, and scoring, 1910-1930 -- Sounds of college life, 1930-1950 -- Singing traditions, 1950-present.…”
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An American Body | Politic A Deleuzian Approach / by Herzogenrath, Bernd, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Body/theory/politic : body-theory -- The Puritans' two bodies -- "'physics' of power" : phase transitions and turbulence in the Antinomian controversy -- Cotton Mather : the angel and the animalcula -- "I am the poet of little things" : Walt Whitman and minor poetics/politics -- A physical theory of heredity/heresy : the education of Henry Adams -- "A sonorous people" : techno-music and the joyful body-politic.…”
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An American Body | Politic : A Deleuzian Approach / by Herzogenrath, Bernd, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Body/theory/politic : body-theory -- The Puritans' two bodies -- "'physics' of power" : phase transitions and turbulence in the Antinomian controversy -- Cotton Mather : the angel and the animalcula -- "I am the poet of little things" : Walt Whitman and minor poetics/politics -- A physical theory of heredity/heresy : the education of Henry Adams -- "A sonorous people" : techno-music and the joyful body-politic.…”
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The Church of England and Christian antiquity the construction of a confessional identity in the 17th century / by Quantin, Jean-Louis

Table of Contents: “…The English Reformation and the Protestant view of antiquity -- The Protestant appeal to the Fathers from Cranmer to Jewel -- Sola scriptura -- Patristic orthodoxy -- Unwritten traditions and the consensus of the Fathers -- Witnesses to the truth : the Fathers and the Protestant view of church history -- Augustine, Calvin, and Reformed orthodoxy -- Becoming traditional : the appeal to antiquity in Jacobean controversies -- Primitive episcopacy -- Puritanism -- Christ's descent into hell -- The cessation of miracles -- From distinctiveness to singularity -- Arminianism, Laudianism, and the Fathers -- Theological method -- Augustinism and Calvinism -- The authority of tradition -- The Fathers assaulted -- The survival of Elizabethan theology -- Theological liberalism and the Fathers : the Great Tew circle -- An anti-patristic breviary : Jean Daill'e's use of the Fathers -- The first English fortune of Daill'e's use of the Fathers -- A patristic identity -- Puritan scripturalism -- The extinction of the Great Tew spirit? …”
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Venice's most loyal city civic identity in Renaissance Brescia / by Bowd, Stephen D.

Table of Contents: “…Space, ritual, and identity ; Civic religion and reform ; Puritanism and the social order -- Pt. 4. Cooperation and conflict. …”
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Mavericks and other traditions in American music by Broyles, Michael, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…New directions : the serial wars ; Postwar experimentalism : John Cage ; The maverick core ; Minimalism and strange bedfellows -- The legacy of the mavericks. Looking back : Puritanism, geography, and the myth of American individualism ; Looking forward : "The end of the Renaissance!"…”
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Calvinist humor in American literature by Dunne, Michael, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Calvinist humor -- Calvinist humor and the American puritans: "the just hand of God" -- Nathaniel Hawthorne: "that would be a jest indeed" -- Herman Melville: "in no world but a fallen one" -- Mark Twain: "the trouble about special providences" -- William Faulkner: "waiting for the part to begin which he would not like" -- Ernest Hemingway: "isn't it pretty to think so?" …”
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Literature, satire and the early Stuart state by McRae, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Stigmatizing Prynne: puritanism and politics in the 1630s -- Epilogue: early Stuart satire and the Civil War.…”
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Strange Jeremiahs civil religion and the literary imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W.E.B. Du Bois / by Stewart, Carole Lynn

Table of Contents: “…The beginning of the American Revolution in the conversion of Northampton. The travail of the Puritan covenant -- Original sin: human limitations and the openness of community -- God is no respecter of persons: the ordinary, lowly, and infantile nature of the revival -- The "strange revolution" and the aesthetics of grace -- The second great awakening, the national period, and Melville's American destiny. …”
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Nature cures the history of alternative medicine in America / by Whorton, James C., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Dilutions of Grandeur: Homeopathy -- 4. Physical Puritanism: Hygeiotherapy -- 5. Magnetism and Mind: From Mesmerism to Christian Science -- Part II The Early Twentieth Century: Drugless Healing -- 6. …”
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Displacing the divine the minister in the mirror of American fiction / by Walrath, Douglas Alan, 1933-

Table of Contents: “…Misfits in America ; Harsh Puritans and fanatical Calvinists ; Scoundrels in collars -- Clerics in contention : church images. …”
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Practicing protestants histories of Christian life in America, 1630-1965 /

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Evangelical practice in Enlightenment New England, 1630-1800 -- Writing as Protestant practice : devotional diaries in early New England / Catherine Brekus -- Forgiveness : from the Puritans to Jonathan Edwards / Mark Valeri -- Part II: Mission, nation, and Christian practice, 1820-1940 -- Assembling bodies and souls : missionary practices on the Pacific frontier / Laurie Maffly-Kipp -- Honoring elders : practices of sagacity and deference in Ojibwe Christianity / Michael McNally -- Nurturing religious nationalism : Korean Americans in Hawaii / David K. …”
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The religious history of American women reimagining the past /

Table of Contents: “…Puritan women, spiritual power, and the question of sexuality / Marilyn J. …”
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Literary Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia in Britain and the Low Countries (1550-1850) /

Table of Contents: “…Antonio de Guevara's Relox de Príncipes (1529) in English (1557) and Dutch (1578) translation / Sabine Waasdorp -- Between love and hate : Thomas Scott's Puritan propaganda and his interest in Spanish culture / Ernesto E. …”
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