Puritanism in America : new culture in a new world /
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New York :
Viking Press,
1973.
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Table of Contents:
- The printed word
- Two views of grace and nature
- Masterlessness and conscience
- Puritanism as culture
- Calvinism
- The congregation as revolutionary cell
- Communism at Plymouth
- Rhetoric of colonization
- Family government
- Colonial realities
- Identity and the Antinomian controversy
- Education limits conscience
- Magisterial supremacy
- Economic basis of heterodoxy
- American Puritanism versus the sect ideal
- New England and the civil war in England
- Laboring class and other economic pressures
- Indian policy
- Control of dissent
- Roger Williams and freedom of conscience
- The nature of the good society
- The function of learning
- Prosperity's meaning
- The dangers of love
- Dominating death
- Emergence of a literary style
- Cultural consequences
- Baptism and tribalism
- Quakerism versus the total state
- Puritan violence
- Restoration politics and commerce
- Reaction to royal supremacy
- Puritan drama
- Indian relations
- King Philip's War and racism
- Advent of provincialism
- Dissension in church affairs
- Synod of 1679 and rise of professionalism
- Religion sentimentalized
- Colonial society
- Political parties
- History as identity
- Alienation of the ministerial intellect
- Issues of political dominion
- Puritanism and liberty
- Social consequences of the new charter
- Anti-French policy and Sir William Phips
- Legislative reaction to negroes and the poor
- Witchcraft
- Shift in sensibility
- Samuel Sewall and Edward Taylor
- Politics of commerce at Harvard and Brattle Street
- Benjamin Colman, sensibility, and sentiment
- John Wise and democracy
- Religion as civilizer
- Slavery
- The social pyramid and high culture
- The Great Awakening
- Psyche versus society and literature
- Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, and puritan continuity.