From witch trials to pickaxe murderers, from brothels to convents, and from slavery to Toni Morrison's Paradise, these essays provide fascinating and provocative insights into our sexual and religious conventions and beliefs.
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An intellectual joining of Sacvan Bercovitch's Puritan Origins of the American Self and Michel Foucault's History of Sex....[F]amiliar and unfamiliar figures, historical and modern, are revealed in a new light.....
–Religious Studies Review, January 2002
For those who imagine there is nothing more to say about the vexed relations between Puritanism and American sexuality, this richly inflected, shrewdly edited collection of essays holds many surprises. Treating the entire history of their associations, it adds a new chapter to our understanding of religion and the body in America.
–Giles Gunn, University of California, Santa Barbara
...nuanced, historically informed readings of Puritan discourses and their afterlives in later cultural texts.
–Glenn Hendler, University of Notre Dame, in the Journal of Religion
–Religious Studies Review, January 2002
For those who imagine there is nothing more to say about the vexed relations between Puritanism and American sexuality, this richly inflected, shrewdly edited collection of essays holds many surprises. Treating the entire history of their associations, it adds a new chapter to our understanding of religion and the body in America.
–Giles Gunn, University of California, Santa Barbara
...nuanced, historically informed readings of Puritan discourses and their afterlives in later cultural texts.
–Glenn Hendler, University of Notre Dame, in the Journal of Religion
About the Author
Tracy Fessenden is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University. Nicholas Radel is Professor of English at Furman University. Magdalena Zaborowska is Associate Professor of English at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.
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- The Rise of David Levinsky (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Abraham Cahan on 6 pages
- Queering the Renaissance (Series Q) by Jonathan Goldberg in Front Matter, page 53, and page 55
- Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton on page 274, page 275, and page 291
- Voices in the Wilderness: Public Discourse and the Paradox of Puritan Rhetoric by Patricia Roberts-Miller in Front Matter, page 140, and page 232
- Herbert Hoover, Thirty-First President of the United States (Encyclopedia of Presidents) by Susan Clinton in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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