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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Madden, Etta M., 1962- Bodies of life. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998 (OCoLC)606976015 Online version: Madden, Etta M., 1962- Bodies of life. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998 (OCoLC)607061599 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Etta M Madden |
| ISBN: | 0313303037 9780313303036 |
| OCLC Number: | 37426239 |
| Description: | xii, 191 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Varieties of Literary Experiences: An overview of Shaker writing and reading -- Letters, Spirits, and bodies: The Shakers' Spiritual Literacies -- Doctrinal Guides to Spiritual Literacies: McNemar's Kentucky Revival and Dunlavy's Manifesto -- (Ad)dressing Naked bodies with pious suffering: writing and readings of the 1816 testimonies -- Reading, writing, race, and mother imagery: The literacies of Rebecca Cox Jackson and Alonzo Giles Hollister -- Preserving the body in poetry: The Canterbury Obituary Journal and funeral rituals -- Private acts and possible worlds: Shaker Literacies at the turn of the century. |
| Series Title: | Contributions to the study of religion, no. 52. |
| Responsibility: | Etta M. Madden. |
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