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Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England

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 | #249698 in Books |  Elizabeth Reis |  1999-01-21 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.66 x6.04l,.70 | File type: PDF | 212 pages

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||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Gender and Puritan Theology in New England|By kronos_16|This book has been used in graduate courses that I took as a student, specifically for a Religion in Colonial America graduate lecture/discussion. The author presents a thoughtful consideration of gender and the ways in which it shapes religious experience, eschewing a lengthy analysis of Salem itself in favor of a fascina| |"When trying to explain the timing and course of events at Salem, historians almost never turned to the assumptions about gender―maleness and femaleness―embedded within a Puritan cosmology. Elizabeth Reis' rich-minded (and delightfully titled) Damned Women

In her analysis of the cultural construction of gender in early America, Elizabeth Reis explores the intersection of Puritan theology, Puritan evaluations of womanhood, and the Salem witchcraft episodes. She finds in those intersections the basis for understanding why women were accused of witchcraft more often than men, why they confessed more often, and why they frequently accused other women of being witches. In negotiating their beliefs about the devil's powers, both...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England   |  Elizabeth Reis. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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