Puritanism and Emotion in the Early Modern World 2016.cProfessor Alec Ryrie
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Author: Professor Alec Ryrie
Number of Pages: 250 pages
Published Date: 27 Apr 2016
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Publication Country: Basingstoke, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9781137490971
Download Link: Puritanism and Emotion in the Early Modern World 2016
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The stereotype of the emotionless or gloomy Puritan is still with us, but this book's purpose is not merely to demonstrate that it is false. The reason to look at seventeenth-century English and American Puritans' understanding and experience of joy, happiness, assurance, and affliction is to show how important the emotions were for Puritan culture, from leading figures such as Richard Baxter and John Bunyan through to more obscure diarists and letter-writers. Rejecting the modern opposition between 'head' and 'heart', these men and women believed that a rational religion was also a deeply-felt one, and that contemplative practices and other spiritual duties could produce transporting joy which was understood as a Christian's birthright. The emotional experiences which they expected from their faith, and the ones they actually encountered, constituted much of its power. Theologians, historians and literary scholars here combine to bring the study of Puritanism together with the new vogue for the history of the emotions.
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