This dissertation examines the connections between cultivating the land and cultivating the soul through select readings of early American conversion narratives composed between 1727-1831. Over a century after British Colonists colonized the shores of New England, members of the United Ministers of Boston championed the efforts of their descendants, who both cultivated the land and the Indigenous and new arrived souls emplaced within the North American landscape. As they told their readers in 1727, their dual cultivating efforts were worthy of universal adulation and imitation. And in 1836, the words of Reverend Nahum Gold echoed those of the United Ministers of Boston in their praising efforts to clear the forests and render what was once ...
Despite scholars’ proclivity to identify natural religion with Enlightenment spirituality—the belief...
This dissertation analyzes a type of knowledge that I call “lived botany” to argue that colonial set...
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-270).The last decades of the eighteenth century brought ...
This dissertation explores published literature of the New England colonies relating to agriculture ...
This dissertation argues that the wilderness of the New World, usually understood as a physical land...
This chapter examines the shifting language of conversion in New England Congregationalism - the bas...
My dissertation describes an important change in the accepted understanding and imagination of natur...
196 pagesThis dissertation reveals connections between social reform and environmental thought and p...
This dissertation argues that early American religious leaders and lay people developed philosophica...
In the late 1700s and early 1800s tens of thousands of people migrated from Southern New England (Ma...
Evocations of the natural world featured prominently within British North American Presbyterianism b...
Scholars have written extensively about this historic development in American religious culture. In ...
This dissertation examines the relationship between evangelicalism and the city in the lives of New ...
This dissertation explores how people transform “new” and unfamiliar environments through colonizati...
Seventeenth-century exegetes described Eden as a three-fold paradise because they believed that Adam...
Despite scholars’ proclivity to identify natural religion with Enlightenment spirituality—the belief...
This dissertation analyzes a type of knowledge that I call “lived botany” to argue that colonial set...
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-270).The last decades of the eighteenth century brought ...
This dissertation explores published literature of the New England colonies relating to agriculture ...
This dissertation argues that the wilderness of the New World, usually understood as a physical land...
This chapter examines the shifting language of conversion in New England Congregationalism - the bas...
My dissertation describes an important change in the accepted understanding and imagination of natur...
196 pagesThis dissertation reveals connections between social reform and environmental thought and p...
This dissertation argues that early American religious leaders and lay people developed philosophica...
In the late 1700s and early 1800s tens of thousands of people migrated from Southern New England (Ma...
Evocations of the natural world featured prominently within British North American Presbyterianism b...
Scholars have written extensively about this historic development in American religious culture. In ...
This dissertation examines the relationship between evangelicalism and the city in the lives of New ...
This dissertation explores how people transform “new” and unfamiliar environments through colonizati...
Seventeenth-century exegetes described Eden as a three-fold paradise because they believed that Adam...
Despite scholars’ proclivity to identify natural religion with Enlightenment spirituality—the belief...
This dissertation analyzes a type of knowledge that I call “lived botany” to argue that colonial set...
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-270).The last decades of the eighteenth century brought ...