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John Winthrop : America's forgotten founding father
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ISBN: 128048196X 0198034016 1602569002 9780198034018 9781602569003 9780195149135 0195149130 9781280481963 0195184033 9780195184037 9786610481965 6610481962 019983962X 0197714102 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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Vividly paints the life of John Winthrop as a disappointed and disaffected member of the English elite, examining how and why Winthrop and others decided to cross the Atlantic and found the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This book shows how Winthrop developed the skills to become the first governor of the colony.

The devil's mousetrap : redemption and colonial American literature
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ISBN: 1280454164 0195354117 058521171X 9780585211718 9781280454165 0195114949 9780195114942 0197741444 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York ; Oxford University Press,

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This study approaches the thought of three colonial New England divines - Increase Mather, Jonathan Edwards, and Edward Taylor - from the perspective of literary criticism.


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A Constitutional Culture : New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire.
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ISBN: 9781512823981 1512823988 Year: 2023 Publisher: Liverpool : University of Pennsylvania Press,

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In A Constitutional Culture, Adrian Chastain Weimer uncovers the story of how, more than a hundred years before the American Revolution, colonists pledged their lives and livelihoods to the defense of local political institutions against arbitrary rule.With the return of Charles II to the English throne in 1660, the puritan-led colonies faced enormous pressure to conform to the crown’s priorities. Charles demanded that puritans change voting practices, baptismal policies, and laws, and he also cast an eye on local resources such as forests, a valuable source of masts for the English navy. Moreover, to enforce these demands, the king sent four royal commissioners on warships, ostensibly headed for New Netherland but easily redirected toward Boston. In the face of this threat to local rule, colonists had to decide whether they would submit to the commissioners’ authority, which they viewed as arbitrary because it was not accountable to the people, or whether they would mobilize to defy the crown.Those resisting the crown included not just freemen (voters) but also people often seen as excluded or marginalized such as non-freemen, indentured servants, and women. Together they crafted a potent regional constitutional culture in defiance of Charles II that was characterized by a skepticism of metropolitan ambition, a defense of civil and religious liberties, and a conviction that self-government was divinely sanctioned. Weimer shows how they expressed this constitutional culture through a set of well-rehearsed practices—including fast days, debates, committee work, and petitions. Equipped with a ready vocabulary for criticizing arbitrary rule, with a providentially informed capacity for risk-taking, and with a set of intellectual frameworks for divided sovereignty, the constitutional culture that New Englanders forged would not easily succumb to an imperial authority intent on consolidating its power.

Female piety in Puritan New England.
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ISBN: 1280525576 0195361776 0195068211 9780195068214 9780195361773 9781280525575 0197739121 Year: 2023 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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This treatise documents the claim that, for Puritan men and women alike, the ideals of selfhood were conveyed by female images. It argues that these images taught self-control, shaped pious ideals and established the standards against which the moral character of real women was measured.

Governing the tongue : the politics of speech in early New England
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ISBN: 1282384155 9786612384158 1602563853 0195130901 0195351363 1280449845 9786610449842 0198025157 0585223483 9780585223483 9781280449840 9780195090802 0195090802 6610449848 0195090802 9780195130904 9780195351361 0197713556 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York ; Oxford University Press,

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This study explores why the spoken word assumed such importance in the culture of early New England. To aid her study, the author re-examines such famous Puritan events as the Salem witch trials and the banishment of Anne Hutchinson.

The body broken : the Calvinist doctrine of the Eucharist and the symbolization of power in sixteenth-century France
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ISBN: 1280470666 0195352920 0585211787 9780585211787 0195121333 9780195121339 0197738397 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York ; Oxford University Press,

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This study of controversy over the Eucharist in 16th-century France argues that Calvinist interpretations of the Lord's Supper played a crucial role in the development of early modern revolutionary politics.

The making of an American thinking class : intellectuals and intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts
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ISBN: 1280529431 0195354419 1429415754 9781429415750 9781280529436 0195113527 9780195113525 0197714455 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York ; Oxford University Press,

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This is a reinterpretation of the political and intellectual history of Puritan Massachusetts, envisioning the Bay colony as a 17th-century one-party state.

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Puritans --- Elite (Social sciences) --- Elites (Social sciences) --- Leadership --- Power (Social sciences) --- Social classes --- Social groups --- Precisians --- Church polity --- Congregationalism --- Puritan movements --- Calvinism --- Intellectual life. --- History --- Massachusetts --- Massachusetts-Bay (State) --- Massachusetts Bay (Province) --- Province of Massachusetts Bay --- Commonwealth of Massachusetts --- Massaçusets --- Штат Масачусетс --- Shtat Masachusets --- Масачусетс --- Masachusets --- Масачузетс --- Masachuzets --- Cymanwlad Massachusetts --- Méésíchóoshish Hahoodzo --- Massachusettsi osariik --- Μασαχουσετη --- Masachousetē --- Κοινοπολιτεια της Μασαχουσετης --- Koinopoliteia tēs Masachousetēs --- Mancomunidad de Massachusetts --- Masaĉuseco --- Mà-sat-tsû-set --- Makakukeka --- Persemakmuran Massachusetts --- Maasaasuusiits --- מסצ'וסטס --- Masatsʼuseṭs --- קהיליית מסצ'וסטס --- Ḳehiliyat Masatsʼuseṭs --- Masachosèt --- Massachusetta --- Massachuseta --- Massaciusseta --- Respublica Massachusettensis --- Respublica Massachusettensium --- Masačūsetsa --- Masačusetsas --- Masačusets --- Массачусеттс --- Massachusettsiĭn Khamtyn Nȯkhȯrlȯl --- Tlahtohcāyōtl Massachusetts --- マサチューセッツ州 --- Masachūsettsu-shū --- Masachūsettsushū --- Массачусетс --- Massachusets --- Комонвелт Масачусетса --- Komonvelt Masačusetsa --- Komonwelt ng Masatsusets --- Estado ng Masatsusets --- Massachusetts Eyaleti --- Співдружність Массачусетса --- Spivdruz︠h︡nistʹ Massachusetsa --- Khối thịnh vượng chung Massachusetts --- מאסאטשוסעטס --- Masaṭshuseṭs --- קאמאנוועלט פון מאַסאַטשוסעסט --- Ḳomonṿelṭ fun Masaṭshuseṭs --- Masačusetsos --- US-MA --- MA (State) --- MS (State : Massachusetts) --- Mass. (State) --- Maine --- Territory and Dominion of New-England --- Intellectual life --- Politics and government


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The gospel of J. Edgar Hoover : how the FBI aided and abetted the rise of white Christian nationalism
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ISBN: 0691244987 Year: 2023 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,

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"The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Christian nationOn a Sunday morning in 1966, a group of white evangelicals dedicated a stained glass window to J. Edgar Hoover. The FBI director was not an evangelical, but his Christian admirers anointed him as their political champion, believing he would lead America back to God. The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover reveals how Hoover and his FBI teamed up with leading white evangelicals and Catholics to bring about a white Christian America by any means necessary.Lerone Martin draws on thousands of newly declassified FBI documents and memos to describe how, under Hoover's leadership, FBI agents attended spiritual retreats and worship services, creating an FBI religious culture that fashioned G-men into soldiers and ministers of Christian America. Martin shows how prominent figures such as Billy Graham, Fulton Sheen, and countless other ministers from across the country partnered with the FBI and laundered bureau intel in their sermons while the faithful crowned Hoover the adjudicator of true evangelical faith and allegiance. These partnerships not only solidified the political norms of modern white evangelicalism, they also contributed to the political rise of white Christian nationalism, establishing religion and race as the bedrock of the modern national security state, and setting the terms for today's domestic terrorism debates.Taking readers from the pulpits and pews of small-town America to the Oval Office, and from the grassroots to denominational boardrooms, The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover completely transforms how we understand the FBI, white evangelicalism, and our nation's entangled history of religion and politics"-- "This book examines one powerful but largely neglected ally of this rising white conservative coalition: J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI he led for almost a half-century. Revered by the evangelical faithful, Hoover was a powerful ally of and partner to the mainstream evangelical movement, working alongside Billy Graham, the mass circulation magazine Christianity Today, the National Association of Evangelicals, and other evangelical institutions and leaders to advance a Christian nationalist vision of America. In some ways it was an odd partnership. Hoover, for one thing, was not himself a "born-again" evangelical. And he maintained a domestic partnership with a male senior FBI agent that did not cohere with Christian conservative family values. Yet white Christian conservatives readily looked to Hoover and his FBI for their civic and political salvation. The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover explains why white evangelicals from the pulpit to the pew honored Hoover as their anointed Christian champion. Part one of the book illustrates how Hoover made white Christian nationalism the bedrock of the modern national security state by shaping the FBI in his own image as soldiers advancing toward a white, Christian America. The second part explains how Hoover materially supported the white Christian nationalist project of fusing conservative Christianity with American civic life. Along the way, Martin considers broader questions about the relationship between religion and national security in American history, and what Hoover's bureau might reveal about the nature of white evangelicalism"--

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Christians, White --- History --- Hoover, J. Edgar --- United States. --- United States --- Church history --- Race relations --- American Dream. --- Baptists. --- Ben Bradlee. --- Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. --- Bible Belt. --- Bible prophecy. --- Billy Graham. --- Books of Samuel. --- Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes). --- Carl McIntire. --- Catechism. --- Catholic Church. --- Charles Hodge. --- Christ. --- Christian Order. --- Christian nationalism. --- Christian republic. --- Christian. --- Christianity Today. --- Christianity. --- Church of the Brethren. --- Church service. --- Clergy. --- Divine providence. --- Doctrine. --- Dutch Reformed Church. --- Epistle. --- Essay. --- Eugene Carson Blake. --- Evangelicalism. --- Faith of Our Fathers (hymn). --- Fulton J. Sheen. --- George McGovern. --- Grace Baptist. --- Harold Lindsell. --- Harry S. Truman. --- His Holiness. --- Ignatian spirituality. --- Image of God. --- Immanuel. --- Introduction to Christianity. --- J. Edgar Hoover Building. --- J. Edgar Hoover. --- J. Edgar. --- J. Howard Pew. --- Jehovah's Witnesses. --- Jehovah. --- Jeremiad. --- John Raines. --- John Wesley. --- Laetare Medal. --- Lay preacher. --- Lincoln Memorial. --- Lord's Prayer. --- Louis Harris. --- Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. --- Lutheran World Federation. --- Lutheranism. --- Martin Luther King, Jr. --- Martin Luther. --- Martin Marty (bishop). --- Marxism and religion. --- Maryknoll. --- Mennonite. --- Methodism. --- Minister (Christianity). --- Monograph. --- National church. --- Old Testament. --- Parish. --- Pastor. --- Philosophy. --- Preacher. --- Precept. --- Preface (liturgy). --- Presbyterian polity. --- Prophet Jeremiah (Michelangelo). --- Protestantism. --- Publication. --- Puritans. --- Reprint. --- Roy Wilkins. --- Samuel. --- Second Vatican Council. --- Sermon. --- Society of Jesus. --- Special agent. --- Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola. --- Stanley Levison. --- The Eleventh Commandment (novel). --- The Lutheran Hour. --- The Word of the Lord. --- Theocracy. --- Treasurer. --- United Church of Christ. --- United Lutheran Church in America. --- United States Intelligence Community. --- World revolution. --- Yale Divinity School. --- Yale University Press.

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