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

• Autore: Hambrick-Stowe Charles E.
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : , : The University of North Carolina Press, , 1982; ©1982
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (315 p.)
• Disciplina: 248.40974
• Soggetto topico: Spiritual life - Christianity - History of doctrines - 17th century; Puritans - New England
• Soggetto geografico: New England Religious life and customs
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The practice of piety
• ISBN: 979-88-908645-1-2; 1-4696-0004-8; 1-4696-1131-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797361203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia