| Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England Contributor(s): Hall, David D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0674962168 ISBN-13: 9780674962163 Publisher: Harvard University Press OUR PRICE: $40.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1990 Annotation: 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. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - History - History | United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775) - History | United States - State & Local - New England (ct, Ma, Me, Nh, Ri, Vt) |
| Dewey: 277.407 |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.05 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hall, David D.: - David D. Hall is John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History at Harvard Divinity School. |