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Front Matter
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Caroline Wigginton and Abram Van Engen
Part I: Theory and Language
Chapter 1: Conversion, Free Will, and the Affections in Eighteenth- Century New England
Chapter 2: The Affections: What’s Love Got to Do with It? A Response to Mark Valeri
Chapter 3: The Language of Belief: Religious Conversion in Eighteenth-Century Iroquoia
Chapter 4: The Tongue Is Only an Interpreter of the Heart: Translating Religious Affections A Response to Scott Manning Stevens
Part II: Mind, Body, and Experience
Chapter 5: This Seed Is God: Hallucinogenic Plants, Syncretism, and the Transformation of Religious Affections in Colonial Mexico
Chapter 6: Local Devotions in New Spain: A Response to Melissa Frost
Chapter 7: Working Down a Bad Spirit: Slavery, Emotion, and the Inner Christ in the Early South
Chapter 8: Bad Spirits: Facing Fear on the Plantation: A Response to Jon Sensbach
Afterword: Messy Entanglements
Contributors
Index
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