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Puritans in the New World: A Critical Anthology

Name: Puritans in the New World: A Critical Anthology
Brand: Princeton University Press
SKU: 9780691114095
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Contributors:

David D. Hall (Editor)

Publisher:

Princeton University Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

History, Literary Criticism, Religion

Book Subcategory:

United States, American, Christianity

Book Topic:

Colonial Period (1600-1775), History

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Release Date:

2001-01-01

ISBN 13:

9780691114095

Weight:

1.23 lbs

Size:

9.18 x 6.16 x 0.82 inches

Pages:

392

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Puritans in the New World tells the story of the powerful yet turbulent culture of the English people who embarked on an "errand into the wilderness." It presents the Puritans in their own words, shedding light on the lives both of great dissenters such as Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson and of the orthodox leaders who contended against them. Classics of Puritan expression, like Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative, Anne Bradstreet's poetry, and William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation appear alongside texts that are less well known but no less important: confessions of religious experience by lay people, the "diabolical" possession of a young woman, and the testimony of Native Americans who accept Christianity. Hall's chapter introductions provide a running history of Puritanism in seventeenth-century New England and alert readers to important scholarship.

Above all, this is a collection of texts that vividly illuminates the experience of being a Puritan in the New World. The book will be welcomed by all those who are interested in early American literature, religion, and history.

About the Author
David D. Hall is Professor of American Religious History at Harvard Divinity School. His books include Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England and Lived Religion in America: Toward a History of Practice (Princeton).

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