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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797361203321

Autore

Hambrick-Stowe Charles E.

Titolo

The practice of piety : Puritan devotional disciplines in seventeenth-century New England / / Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : , : The University of North Carolina Press, , 1982

©1982

ISBN

979-88-908645-1-2

1-4696-0004-8

1-4696-1131-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 p.)

Collana

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

Disciplina

248.40974

Soggetti

Spiritual life - Christianity - History of doctrines - 17th century

Puritans - New England

New England Religious life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes indexes.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

New England devotional practice: four vignettes -- "The better part: heart religion" -- Puritan as pilgrim -- The ordinances of public worship -- Private devotion: neighborhood, family, conference -- Private devotion: secret exercises -- Pilgrimage as preparation -- "The travelling interest of Christ in this wilderness": the devotional crisis of the second generation -- The Puritan contemplative.

Sommario/riassunto

A moving and vivid account of what it meant to be a Puritan, this account draws on diaries, spiritual biographies, and devotional manuals to explore the daily and weekly ritual and discipline. The devotional movement was at the heart of Puritanism, and the spiritual pilgrimage was the soul's progress from birth to death to rebirth and eternal glory. Puritan worship brought together college student and illiterate farmer, giving coherence to the community.