Puritanism in the Making of a Nation
Author | : Dean Carl Hammer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Puritan movements |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Dean Carl Hammer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Puritan movements |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Everett H. Emerson |
Publisher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
An overview of the historical development of Puritanism in seventeenth-and early-eighteenth century America draws attention to social and cultural implications and the ideas of John Winthrop, John Cotton, and Cotton and Increase Mather.
Author | : J. Gregory |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Puritans |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Francis J. Bremer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2009-07-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0199740879 |
Written by a leading expert on the Puritans, this brief, informative volume offers a wealth of background on this key religious movement. This book traces the shaping, triumph, and decline of the Puritan world, while also examining the role of religion in the shaping of American society and the role of the Puritan legacy in American history. Francis J. Bremer discusses the rise of Puritanism in the English Reformation, the struggle of the reformers to purge what they viewed as the corruptions of Roman Catholicism from the Elizabethan church, and the struggle with the Stuart monarchs that led to a brief Puritan triumph under Oliver Cromwell. It also examines the effort of Puritans who left England to establish a godly kingdom in America. Bremer examines puritan theology, views on family and community, their beliefs about the proper relationship between religion and public life, the limits of toleration, the balance between individual rights and one's obligation to others, and the extent to which public character should be shaped by private religious belief. About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.
Author | : Sacvan Bercovitch |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1975-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780300021172 |
Errata slip inserted. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author | : J. Gregory |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2016-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781371428303 |
Author | : Ian Tyrrell |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2024-06-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226833429 |
A powerful dissection of a core American myth. The idea that the United States is unlike every other country in world history is a surprisingly resilient one. Throughout his distinguished career, Ian Tyrrell has been one of the most influential historians of the idea of American exceptionalism, but he has never written a book focused solely on it until now. The notion that American identity might be exceptional emerged, Tyrrell shows, from the belief that the nascent early republic was not simply a postcolonial state but a genuinely new experiment in an imperialist world dominated by Britain. Prior to the Civil War, American exceptionalism fostered declarations of cultural, economic, and spatial independence. As the country grew in population and size, becoming a major player in the global order, its exceptionalist beliefs came more and more into focus—and into question. Over time, a political divide emerged: those who believed that America’s exceptionalism was the basis of its virtue and those who saw America as either a long way from perfect or actually fully unexceptional, and thus subject to universal demands for justice. Tyrrell masterfully articulates the many forces that made American exceptionalism such a divisive and definitional concept. Today, he notes, the demands that people acknowledge America’s exceptionalism have grown ever more strident, even as the material and moral evidence for that exceptionalism—to the extent that there ever was any—has withered away.
Author | : Michael P. Winship |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2019-02-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 030012628X |
On fire for God--a sweeping history of puritanism in England and America Begun in the mid-sixteenth century by Protestant nonconformists keen to reform England's church and society while saving their own souls, the puritan movement was a major catalyst in the great cultural changes that transformed the early modern world. Providing a uniquely broad transatlantic perspective, this groundbreaking volume traces puritanism's tumultuous history from its initial attempts to reshape the Church of England to its establishment of godly republics in both England and America and its demise at the end of the seventeenth century. Shedding new light on puritans whose impact was far-reaching as well as on those who left only limited traces behind them, Michael Winship delineates puritanism's triumphs and tribulations and shows how the puritan project of creating reformed churches working closely with intolerant godly governments evolved and broke down over time in response to changing geographical, political, and religious exigencies.
Author | : David D. Hall |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 2021-04-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691203377 |
"Shedding critical new light on the diverse forms of Puritan belief and practice in England, Scotland, and New England, Hall provides a multifaceted account of a cultural movement that judged the Protestant reforms of Elizabeth's reign to be unfinished"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : J Gregory |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-05-24 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781359241375 |
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