Format:
Online-Ressource (vi, 292 p)
,
25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0195138007
Series Statement:
Religion in America series
Content:
This study offers a new interpretation of the Puritan Antinomian controversy and a skillful analysis of its wider and long term social and cultural significance. Breen argues that controversy both reflected and fostered larger questions of identity that would persist in Puritan New Englandduring the 17th century. Some issues discussed here include the existence of individualism in a society that valued conformity and the response of members of an inward-looking, localistic culture to those among them of a more cosmopolitan nature. Central to Breen's study is the Ancient andHonorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, an elite social club that attracted a heterogeneous yet prominent membership, and whose diversity contrasted with the social and religious ideals of the cultural majority.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Antinomian Moment: A Contest of Cultures in Puritan Massachusetts -- 2 "I Ame As Jephthah:" Honor, Heresy, and the Massachusetts Ordeal of John Underhill -- 3 Cosmopolitan Puritans in a Provincial Colony -- 4 Praying with the Enemy: Daniel Gookin, King Philip's War, and the Dangers of Intercultural Mediatorship -- 5 Epilogue and Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-282) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195138009
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780195138009
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=3051842
