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A revised and updated edition of a classic text on the early Puritans.
First published in 1976, The Puritan Experiment is an accessible, authoritative account of early New England, one with an enduring appeal for students and general readers. This revised and updated edition explains Puritanism while incorporating fresh insights from current scholarship.
Beginning with the Act of Supremacy in 1534 and ending with Jonathan Edwards' death in 1758, Francis J. Bremer examines the causes and contexts of the Puritan movement and analyzes the religious, political, sociological, economic, and cultural changes wrought by the movement in both Old and New England. From meeting house architecture to Salem witch trials, from relations with Native Americans to the founding of the nation's first colleges, he details with style and grace "a living system of faith" that not only had profound significance for tens of thousands of Englishmen and Americans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but also affected the course of history in the New World. This edition includes new information about lay empowerment, the role of women, Native society, and the enslavement of Native Americans and Africans.
Contents
Preface
1. The Origins and Growth of the Puritan Movement
2. Puritanism: Its Essence and Attraction
3. New England before the English
4. Sources of the Great Migration
5. Massachusetts: The Erection of a City on a Hill
6. Variations on a Theme: Connecticut, New Haven, Rhode Island, and the Eastern Frontier
7. Orthodoxy in New England: The Colony Level
8. Orthodoxy in New England: The Community
9. New England and Puritan England
10. The New England Way in an Age of Religious Ferment
11. Changes in Restoration New England
12. Challenges to the Faith: Pluralism and Declension
13. Race Relations in the Mid-Century
14. An Oppressed People: New England's Encounters with Metacom, Governor Andros, and the Witches
15. Art and Science in Colonial New England
16. New Directions: Puritanism in the Neglected Decades
17. Enlightenment and Evangelicalism
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index
