Author: William Andrews Pew
Publisher:
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 75

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Author: Virginia DeJohn Anderson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521447645
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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This book explores New England's founding, in terms of ordinary people and the transcendent meanings that those lives ultimately acquired.

Author: Charles McLean Andrews
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Author: Monica D. Fitzgerald
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110880506X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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Tracing the first three generations in Puritan New England, this book explores changes in language, gender expectations, and religious identities for men and women. The book argues that laypeople shaped gender conventions by challenging the ideas of ministers and rectifying more traditional ideas of masculinity and femininity. Although Puritan's emphasis on spiritual equality had the opportunity to radically alter gender roles, in daily practice laymen censured men and women differently – punishing men for public behavior that threatened the peace of their communities, and women for private sins that allegedly revealed their spiritual corruption. In order to retain their public masculine identity, men altered the original mission of Puritanism, infusing gender into the construction of religious ideas about public service, the creation of the individual, and the gendering of separate spheres. With these practices, Puritans transformed their 'errand into the wilderness' and the normative Puritan became female.

Author: Francis J. Bremer
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611682584
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 407

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An introduction to the diverse lives of the Puritan founders by a leading expert

Author: Richard A. Bailey
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199710627
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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As colonists made their way to New England in the early seventeenth century, they hoped their efforts would stand as a "citty upon a hill." Living the godly life preached by John Winthrop would have proved difficult even had these puritans inhabited the colonies alone, but this was not the case: this new landscape included colonists from Europe, indigenous Americans, and enslaved Africans. In Race and Redemption in Puritan New England, Richard A. Bailey investigates the ways that colonial New Englanders used, constructed, and re-constructed their puritanism to make sense of their new realities. As they did so, they created more than a tenuous existence together. They also constructed race out of the spiritual freedom of puritanism.

Author: Francis J. Bremer
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611680867
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 283

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The comprehensive history of a system of faith that shaped the nation.

Author: Pamela Elwyn Thomas
Publisher:
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Category : Puritans
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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Author: John Cotton
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Category : Catechisms
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Author: Emory Elliott
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400868203
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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For years, scholars have attempted to understand the powerful hold that the sermon had upon the imagination of New England Puritans. In this book Emory Elliott puts forth a complex and striking thesis: that Puritan religious literature provided the myths and metaphors that helped the people to express their deepest doubts and fears, feelings created by their particular cultural situation and aroused by the crucial social events of seventeenth-century America. In his early chapters, the author defines the psychological needs of the second- and third-generation Puritans, arguing that these needs arose from the generational conflict between the founders and their children and from the methods of child rearing and religious education employed in Puritan New England. In the later chapters, he reveals how the ministers responded to the crisis in their society by reshaping theology and constructing in their sermons a religious language that helped to fulfill the most urgent psychological needs of the people. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.