@article{755203,
      recid = {755203},
      author = {Ryrie, Alec, and Schwanda, Tom,},
      title = {Puritanism and emotion in the early modern world  [electronic resource] /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/755203},
}