Puritans and Catholics in the Trans-Atlantic World 1600-1800

Crawford Gribben is Professor of Early Modern British History at Queen's University Belfast, UK. He is the author of several books on the literary cultures of Puritanism and evangelicalism, including God's Irishmen (2007), Writing the Rapture: Prophecy fiction in evangelical America (2009), and Evangelical millennialism in the trans-Atlantic world, 1500-2000 (2011). R. Scott Spurlock is Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. He has held posts at the University of Aberdeen, Trinity College Dublin, the Institute of Theology at Queen's University Belfast and the University of Manchester. Alongside Crawford Gribben, he co-edits two books series: Palgrave Macmillan's 'Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World, 1500–1800' and 'Scottish Religious Cultures: Historical Perspectives'.

“Includes recent monographs and edited collections by several contributors to this volume. ... Overall, the collection provides a nuanced reassessment of confessional relationships and lays out a number of promising directions for future scholarship on the process of religious reform in the Atlantic world.” (Elizabeth Bouldin, Church History, Vol. 87 (1), March, 2018)“The collection attempts to trace ‘some of the new kinds of religious relationships which were made possible within the Atlantic world’. Taken together, the eleven essays here represent an admirable attempt to capture the breadth and diversity of religious life in the emerging trans-Atlantic. … The volume takes an innovative approach to the intersectionof Protestant and Catholic interests, and represents a welcome contribution to our understanding of the religious cultures nurtured by the expanding early modern trans-Atlantic.” (Matthew C. Bingham, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 68 (3), July, 2017)

• 1 Introduction; Crawford Gribben.- 2 Families and Religious Conflict in the Early Modern Atlantic World; Francis J. Bremer.- 3 Catholics in a Puritan Atlantic: The Liminality of Empire’s Edge; R. Scott Spurlock.- 4 Catholic and Puritan Conspiracies in Samuel Ward’s The Double Deliverance (1621); Ema Vyroubalová.- 5 Spiritual Treason and the Politics of Intercession: Presbyterians, Laudians and the Church of England; Polly Ha.- 6 Straining the Bonds of Puritanism: English Presbyterians and Massachusetts Congregationalists Debate Ecclesiology, 1636–40; Michael P. Winship.- 7 The Jewish Indian Theory and Protestant Use of Catholic Thought in the Early Modern Atlantic; Andrew Crome.- 8 Reformation and the Wickedness of Port Royal, Jamaica, 1655– c .1692; David Manning.- 9 Cotton Mather, Heterodox Puritanism, and the Construction of Americ; Edward Simon.- 10 The London Yearly Meeting and Quaker Administrative Innovation in an Atlantic Context; Jordan Landes.- 11 Thinking Like a Presbyterianin 1690s Ireland; Robert Armstrong.- 12 ‘With the Papists They Have Much in Common’: Trans-Atlantic Protestant Communalism and Catholicism, 1700–1850; Philip Lockley.