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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"religious enthusiasm"”.
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A physiological definition of style: science, religion, and women���s writings in the early American republic
… psychology in an analysis of transatlantic religious writing, speaking, and reading practices in the Atlantic world. Using Methodist women's spiritual journals, copybooks, and correspondence as my primary sources, I argue that the mental experience of persuasion is in fact a bodily one. I …
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Social reform in the burned-over district: Rochester, New York as a test case, 1830-1854
… region's responsiveness to reform movements and religious enthusiasm earned it both the unique title of “Burned-over District" and a prominent place in historians’ accounts of antebellum reform. While some scholars have remained content to describe the activities and ideas of the reformers, …