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The Man Who Would Be Perfect : John Humphrey Noyes and the Utopian Impulse / Robert David Thomas.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©1977Edition: Reprint 2016Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812277241
  • 9781512807592
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. A Time of Turmoil: John Humphrey Noyes’s Youth and His Religious Conversion -- 2. On the Road to Damascus: Andover, Yale, and a Perfectionist Ideology -- 3. Perfectionism, Anxiety, “The New York Experience” -- 4. Obsessional Behavior: Perfection, Assertions of Leadership, and Disrupted Relationships -- 5. The Quest for Security: Love, Sex, and Marriage -- 6. Institutional Order and Disorder: Paternal Authority and the Family -- 7. Health: A Matter of Life and Death -- 8. Noyes: The Democratic Theocrat -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781512807592

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. A Time of Turmoil: John Humphrey Noyes’s Youth and His Religious Conversion -- 2. On the Road to Damascus: Andover, Yale, and a Perfectionist Ideology -- 3. Perfectionism, Anxiety, “The New York Experience” -- 4. Obsessional Behavior: Perfection, Assertions of Leadership, and Disrupted Relationships -- 5. The Quest for Security: Love, Sex, and Marriage -- 6. Institutional Order and Disorder: Paternal Authority and the Family -- 7. Health: A Matter of Life and Death -- 8. Noyes: The Democratic Theocrat -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

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In English.

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