Writing as a protestant practice: Devotional diaries in early New England

Practicing Protestants: Histories of Christian Life in America, 1630-1965

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 19-34

  Brekus, Catherine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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