Adam B. Seligman is professor of religion at Boston University, USA, and Research Associate at the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs there. He has published ten books on religion and society.

"Seligman uses the work of Max Weber to determine how needs for authority and community helped forge social orders in Puritan New England... The book is well organized and clearly written, and it includes an impressive use of primary documents. Seligman has made a contribution to historical sociology in general, and to Weberian study in particular, that will be valued by both historians and sociologists who specialize in North America's Puritan beginnings." -E. J. Green, Choice "Professor Sligman's book contributes worthily to what C. Wright Mills called the 'classic tradition' of sociology. It merits the sympathetic scrutiny of sociologists and historians alike."-Roger O'Toole, Canadian Journal of Sociology "Innerworldly Individualism provides a new and engaging response to an old and much-debated theory, namely Weber's Thesis of the Protestant Ethic... Seligman is to be commended for his unique intertwining of sociological theory with historical analysis."-Margaret M. Poloma, Contemporary Sociology "Historians and sociologists will find something of interest in Seligman's application of Weberian concepts to seventeenth-century history."-David Zaret, The Journal of American History

• Contents Preface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Charisma, the Church, and the Reformation2 The Origins of Settlement3 Protest and Collective Boundaries4 The Emergent Tensions of Institutionalization5 The Half Way Covenant and the Jeremiad Sermon6 The Institutionalization of Charisma in Society7 ConclusionBibliographyIndex

Adam B. Seligman is professor of religion at Boston University, USA, and Research Associate at the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs there. He has published ten books on religion and society.

"Seligman uses the work of Max Weber to determine how needs for authority and community helped forge social orders in Puritan New England... The book is well organized and clearly written, and it includes an impressive use of primary documents. Seligman has made a contribution to historical sociology in general, and to Weberian study in particular, that will be valued by both historians and sociologists who specialize in North America's Puritan beginnings." -E. J. Green, Choice "Professor Sligman's book contributes worthily to what C. Wright Mills called the 'classic tradition' of sociology. It merits the sympathetic scrutiny of sociologists and historians alike."-Roger O'Toole, Canadian Journal of Sociology "Innerworldly Individualism provides a new and engaging response to an old and much-debated theory, namely Weber's Thesis of the Protestant Ethic... Seligman is to be commended for his unique intertwining of sociological theory with historical analysis."-Margaret M. Poloma, Contemporary Sociology "Historians and sociologists will find something of interest in Seligman's application of Weberian concepts to seventeenth-century history."-David Zaret, The Journal of American History

• Contents Preface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Charisma, the Church, and the Reformation2 The Origins of Settlement3 Protest and Collective Boundaries4 The Emergent Tensions of Institutionalization5 The Half Way Covenant and the Jeremiad Sermon6 The Institutionalization of Charisma in Society7 ConclusionBibliographyIndex