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This study of the relationship between American transcendentalism and the Asian religions traces the history of the transcendentalist movement in the USA and the profound influence of Orientalism on the movement.

Transcendentalism (New England) --- Transcendantalisme (Philosophie américaine) --- Asia --- Asie --- Religion --- Influence. --- Influence --- New England transcendentalism --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia

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This study of religious thought and social life in early America focuses on the career of Joseph Bellamy (1719-1790), a Connecticut minister noted chiefly for his role in the New Divinity - the influental theological movement that evolved from the writings of Jonathan Edwards.

New Divinity theology --- Providence and government of God --- God --- New Divinity (Movement) --- New England theology --- History. --- History of doctrines --- Providence and government --- Sovereignty --- Bellamy, Joseph, --- Paulinus, --- Second neighbour, --- New England --- Northeastern States --- Church history

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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.

English language --- Puritans --- Language and culture --- Oral communication --- Americanisms --- Precisians --- Church polity --- Congregationalism --- Puritan movements --- Calvinism --- Germanic languages --- Oral transmission --- Speech communication --- Verbal communication --- Communication --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Political aspects --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Spoken English --- Dialects --- Language. --- Provincialisms --- New England --- History --- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 --- English language - Political aspects - New England. --- New England - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. --- Languages. --- Northeastern States --- Women --- History.

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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.

Constitutional history --- Catholicism. --- Charles II. --- Colonial America. --- Congregationalism. --- Constitutionalism. --- Declaration of Breda. --- Massachusetts Bay. --- New England. --- Puritans. --- Restoration. --- church and state. --- civil religious liberties. --- movement. --- oral culture. --- political. --- resistance. --- royal commissioner. --- sedition. --- self-government. --- seventeenth century. --- sovereignty.

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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.

Puritans --- Women in Christianity --- Identification (Religion) --- Women --- Spirituality --- Spiritual-mindedness --- Philosophy --- Religion --- Spiritual life --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Identity (Religion) --- Religious identity --- Psychology, Religious --- Christianity --- Precisians --- Church polity --- Congregationalism --- Puritan movements --- Calvinism --- History of doctrines. --- Religious aspects --- History. --- New England --- Church history. --- Christian women --- Christianity and religious humanism --- Religious life