Dissenting Bodies: Corporealities in Early New England

Martha L. Finch

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November, 2009
Cloth, 296 pages, 9 halftones
ISBN: 978-0-231-13946-5
$45.00 / £31.00

List of Illustrations

Preface

Introduction: Embodying Godliness

1. Massasoit's Stool and Wituwamat's Head: Body Encounters

2. A Banquet in the Wilderness: Bodies and the Environment

3. As on a Hill: Public Bodies

4. The True and Visible Church: The Body of Christ

5. As in a Mirror: Domestic Bodies

Notes

Index

Related Subjects

• American Religion
• Christianity

About the Author

Martha L. Finch received her M.A. and Ph.D. in religious studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Missouri State University in Springfield, and her area of research is American religious history, with specializations in early New England and religion and the body, including food, sexuality, dress, and ritual practices. She is editor, with Etta M. Madden, of Eating in Eden: Food and American Utopias.

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