The Cambridge companion to Puritanism / edited by John Coffey and Paul C.H. Lim.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coffey, John, 1969-

Lim, Paul Chang-Ha

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Cambridge companions to religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Puritans.

Physical Description:

xi, 385 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Summary:

'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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780521860888

0521860881

9780521678001

0521678005

OCLC:

212858866

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