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Worlds of wonder, days of judgment : popular religious belief in early New England / David D. Hall.
LIBRA BR530 .H35 1989
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hall, David D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church history.
- New England--Religious life and customs.
- New England.
- New England--Church history--17th century.
- Physical Description:
- 316 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Knopf, 1989.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages [255]-299.
- ISBN:
- 039450108X :
- OCLC:
- 18496867
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