Feeling Godly
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affective theology
African American religious history
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Christian conversion in early America
Christian moral psychology
Christian theological history
colonial religious life
comparative religious studies
comparative study of religion
Congregationalist philosophy
cross-cultural religious encounters
early American cultural history of religion
early American literature and religion
early American piety and devotion
early American religious communities
early American religious essays
early American theology
early modern American religious thought
early North American religious culture
emotional history of religion
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expressions of religious emotion
forgiveness and love in Christian thought
historical studies of Christian conversion
historical theology in North America
history of Christian devotions
history of religious experience
interfaith encounters in early America
Jonathan Edwards religious thought
manifestations of faith and affections
moral and spiritual affections
Native American spirituality and Christian contact
Native and African American religious practices
philosophy of conversion
religion and cultural contact
religious affections in history
religious experience in colonial communities
religious practices in colonial America
religious scholarship on affections
spiritual transformation and humility
spirituality and moral transformation
spirituality in Native and African American communities
theology and emotions in early America
Product details
- ISBN 9781625345905
- Weight: 310g
- Dimensions: 147 x 220mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jul 2021
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In 1746, Jonathan Edwards described his philosophy on the process of Christian conversion in A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections. For Edwards, a strict Congregationalist, true conversion is accompanied by a new heart and yields humility, forgiveness, and love-affections that work a change in the person's nature. But, how did other early American communities understand religious affections and come to recognize their manifestation? Feeling Godly brings together well-known and highly regarded scholars of early American history and literature, Native American studies, African American history, and religious studies to investigate the shape, feel, look, theology, and influence of religious affections in early American sites of contact with and between Christians. While remaining focused on the question of religious affections, these essays span a wide range of early North American cultures, affiliations, practices, and devotions, and enable a comparative approach that draws together a history of emotions with a history of religion. In addition to the volume editors, this collection includes essays from Joanna Brooks, Kathleen Donegan, Melissa Frost, Stephanie Kirk, Jon Sensbach, Scott Manning Stevens, and Mark Valeri, with an afterword by Barbara H. Rosenwein.
Caroline Wigginton is associate professor of English at the University of Mississippi and author of In the Neighborhood: Women's Publication in Early America.
Abram Van Engen is associate professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis.
Abram Van Engen is associate professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis.
