Worlds Of Wonder, Days Of Judgment
Popular Religious Belief in Early New England
Published on 1. May 2013
320 pages
978-0-307-83178-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book tells an extraordinary story of the people of early New England and their spiritual lives. It is about ordinary people--farmers, housewives, artisans, merchants, sailors, aspiring scholars--struggling to make sense of their time and place on earth. David Hall describes a world of religious consensus and resistance: a variety of conflicting beliefs and believers ranging from the committed core to outright dissenters. He reveals for the first time the many-layered complexity of colonial religious life, and the importance within it of traditions derived from those of the Old World. We see a religion of the laity that was to merge with the tide of democratic nationalism in the nineteenth century, and that remains with us today as the essence of Protestant America.
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03/1989
Alfred A. Knopf
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DAVID D. HALL is Bartlett Research Professor of New England Church History at Harvard Divinity School. He is the author or editor of numerous books on American religious and cultural history.
Content
- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 The Uses of Literacy
- 2 A World of Wonders
- 3 The Meeting House
- 4 The Uses of Ritual
- 5 The Mental World of Samuel Sewall
- Afterword
- A Note on Book Ownership in Seventeenth-Century New England
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- About the Author
