The Puritan experiment : New England society from Bradford to Edwards /

Main Author: Bremer, Francis J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hanover : University Press of New England, ©1995.
Edition:Rev. ed.
Series:Library of New England
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Table of Contents:
  • Title Page; Contents; Preface; Chronology; 1 The Origins and Growth of the Puritan Movement; 2 Puritanism: Its Essence and Attraction; 3 Sources aof the Great Migration; 4 Massachusetts: The Erection of a City on a Hill; 5 Variations on a Theme: Connecticut, New Haven, Rhode Island, and the Eastern Frontier; 6 Orthodoxy in New England: The Colony Level; 7 Orthodoxy in New England: The Community; 8 New England and Puritan England; 9 The New England Way in an Age of Religious Ferment; 10 Changes in Restoration New England.
  • 11 Challenges to the Faith: Pluralism and Declension12 An Oppressed People: New England's Encounters with Metacom, Governor Andros, and the Witches; 13 Art and Science in Colonial New England; 14 Race Relations; 15 New Directions: Puritanism in the Neglected Decades; 16 Enlightenment and Evangelicalism; Suggestions for Further Reading; Index.