The Cambridge companion to Puritanism

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Title:

The Cambridge companion to Puritanism

Author:

Coffey, John, 1969-

ISBN:

9780521860888

9780521678001

Publication Information:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Physical Description:

xi, 385 p. ; 23 cm.

Series:

Cambridge companions to religion

Series Title:

Cambridge companions to religion

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

English Puritanism -- Anti-puritanism / Patrick Collinson -- The growth of English Puritanism / John Craig -- Early Stuart Puritanism / Tom Webster -- The Puritan revolution / John Morrill -- Later Stuart Puritanism / John Spurr -- Beyond England -- Puritanism and the continental reformed churches / Anthony Milton -- The Puritan experiment in New England, 1630-1660 / Francis J. Bremer -- New England, 1660-1730 / David D. Hall -- Puritanism in Ireland and Wales / Crawford Gribben -- The problem of Scotland's Puritans / Margo Todd -- Major themes -- Practical divinity and spirituality / Charles Hambrick-Stowe -- Puritan polemical divinity and doctrinal controversy / Dewey D. Wallace, Jr. -- Puritans and the Church of England : historiography and ecclesiology / Paul C.H. Lim -- Radical Puritanism, c. 1558-1660 / David R. Como -- Puritan millenarianism in old and New England / Jeffrey K. Jue -- The godly and popular culture / Alexandra Walsham -- Puritanism and gender / Ann Hughes -- Puritanism and literature / N.H. Keeble -- Puritanism and posterity -- Puritan legacies / John Coffey -- The historiography of Puritanism / Peter Lake.

Abstract:

"'Puritan' was originally a term of contempt, and 'Puritanism' has often been stereotyped by critics and admirers alike. As a distinctive and particularly intense variety of early modern Reformed Protestantism, it was a product of acute tensions within the post-Reformation Church of England. But it was never monolithic or purely oppositional, and its impact reverberated far beyond seventeenth-century England and New England. This Companion broadens our understanding of Puritanism, showing how students and scholars might engage with it from new angles and uncover the surprising diversity that fermented beneath its surface. The book explores issues of gender, literature, politics and popular culture in addition to addressing the Puritans' core concerns such as theology and devotional praxis, and coverage extends to Irish, Welsh, Scottish and European versions of Puritanism as well as to English and American practice.

It challenges readers to re-evaluate this crucial tradition within its wider social, cultural, political and religious contexts."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

Puritans.

Added Author:

Coffey, John, 1969-

Lim, Paul Chang-Ha.

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'Puritan' was originally a term of contempt, and 'Puritanism' has often been stereotyped by critics and admirers alike. As a distinctive and particularly intense variety of early modern Reformed Protestantism, it was a product of acute tensions within the post-Reformation Church of England. But it was never monolithic or purely oppositional, and its impact reverberated far beyond seventeenth-century England and New England. This Companion broadens our understanding of Puritanism, showing how students and scholars might engage with it from new angles and uncover the surprising diversity that fermented beneath its surface. The book explores issues of gender, literature, politics and popular culture in addition to addressing the Puritans' core concerns such as theology and devotional praxis, and coverage extends to Irish, Welsh, Scottish and European versions of Puritanism as well as to English and American practice. It challenges readers to re-evaluate this crucial tradition within its wider social, cultural, political and religious contexts.