TY - BOOK AU - Knutson,Andrea TI - American spaces of conversion: the conductive imaginaries of Edwards, Emerson, and James SN - 9780199870769 (ebook) : AV - BX9323 U1 - 248.240973 22 PY - 2011/// CY - New York, Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Edwards, Jonathan, KW - Emerson, Ralph Waldo, KW - James, William, KW - Conversion KW - Christianity KW - Puritans KW - Doctrines KW - Influence N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - This study examines how the concept of conversion and the legacy of the doctrine of preparation, as articulated in Puritan Reformed theology and transplanted to the Massachusetts Bay colony, remained a vital cultural force shaping developments in American literature, theology, and in philosophy in the form of pragmatism UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195370928.001.0001 ER -