The Practice of Piety
Puritan Devotional Disciplines in Seventeenth-Century New England
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.
Publication
2014
Pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Omohundro Institute and Unc Press
Collection
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
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