{"product_id":"the-science-of-the-soul-in-colonial-new-england-paperback-softback-9781469684079","title":"The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England (Paperback \/ softback) 9781469684079","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Science of the Soul in Colonial New England\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSarah Rivett (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781469684079\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 August 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e384 pages, 20 illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.5 x 2 cm, 0.453 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAn extraordinary work of interdisciplinary scholarship and a rich and rewarding read.\" - \u003ci\u003eNew England Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A careful and accomplished book: thorough in its mining of seventeenth-century print culture; revisionary in its placement of key Enlightenment texts in conversation with more obscure theological sources; and masterful in its treatment of very tricky, sinuous threads of religious, scientific, and intellectual history.\" - \u003ci\u003eEarly American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[An] ambitious book.\" - \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This deeply intelligent book is essential reading for scholars of Puritan studies, early American literature and religious history more broadly, and the history of science. Its cogent writing and sophisticated argument will make it an important addition to reading lists for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in those fields for a long time to come.\" - \u003ci\u003eThe Historian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rivett's book reminds us of the interconnectedness of seemingly distinct ways of knowing, and suggests that modernity may inhere in propensity to question what is appropriate to be known.\" - \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] sophisticated and sensitive reading of theology and spirituality. . . . Fascinating.\" - \u003ci\u003eWilliam and Mary Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A beautifully written and well-considered account of a key moment in the American cultures of knowledge.\" - \u003ci\u003eCatholic Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The breadth and detail of Rivett's \u003ci\u003eThe Science of the Soul in Colonial New England\u003c\/i\u003e are impressive, and her argument is often compelling.\" - \u003ci\u003eWilliam and Mary Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e An impressive display of interdisciplinary scholarship.--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Studies Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fascinating study of how colonial believers wrestled with the age-old question: How do I know I am saved?\" - \u003ci\u003eJournal of the North Carolina Association of Historians\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Science of the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Omohundro Institute and UNC Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52589057474840,"sku":"9781469684079","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-science-of-the-soul-in-colonial-new-england-paperback-softback-9781469684079","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}