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Strukturbaum
Keine Einordnung ins Vorlesungsverzeichnis vorhanden.
Veranstaltung ist aus dem Semester
SoSe 2024
, Aktuelles Semester: WiSe 2024/25
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“God Knows How Many Devils There Are…” - Witchcraft in Puritan New England
Sprache: Englisch
Belegpflicht
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(Keine Nummer)
Hauptseminar
SoSe 2024
2 SWS
jedes Semester
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Lehreinheit:
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Anglistik
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Teilnehmer/-in
Maximal : 50
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Zugeordnete Lehrperson:
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Engel
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Zur Zeit keine Belegung möglich
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Termin:
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Montag
10:00
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12:00
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Beginn : 08.04.2024
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Raum :
R11 T03 C82
R11T
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fällt aus am 06.05.2024
Das Seminar entfällt aufgrund von Krankheit. Weitere Informationen entnehmen Sie bitte dem Moodle Kurs.
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Life in Puritan New England was controlled by piety and an undercurrent fear of evil. Devoting their lives to worshiping God, hard work and the belief in predestination was an existence most Puritans in New England stoically accepted; they had, after all, gone there to carve out new lives as God’s chosen people. Beneath the surface of most settlements in Puritan New England, however, coursed dark currents of “immoral behavior.” The existence of witches was for many Puritans not some sort of wild fantasy but a serious expression of social and religious disorder. The fear of the devil was omnipresent in Puritan New England. This seminar aims at looking at the roots of witchcraft in Puritan New England and the traces it has left in U.S.-American society and cultural memory. We will discuss historical key texts and documents from the Salem Witch Trials among others to find possible explanations why more than 80% of the accused were women and how the fear of the devil has quickly turned into a deadly mass-hysteria. |
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