Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment

Popular Religious Belief in Early New England

Häftad, Engelska, 1990

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1990-10-01
Mått:156 x 235 x 23 mm
Vikt:476 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:Harvard University Press
ISBN:9780674962163

Utforska kategorier

Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

David D. Hall is John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History at Harvard Divinity School.

Recensioner i media

Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment is an extraordinarily rich evocation of the popular culture of seventeenth-century New England… A short review can only hint at the methodological brilliance and the interpretive richness of this relatively brief book. Hall succeeds not only in sketching out a new agenda for study of the New England mind but strikes out skillfully on the task of integrating the beliefs of the colonies with their everyday lives.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction 1. The Uses of Literacy 2. A World of Wonders 3. The Meetinghouse 4. The Uses of Ritual 5. The Mental World of Samuel Afterword A Note on Book Ownership in Seventeenth-Century New England Acknowledgments Notes Index