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Recent decades have brought to light the staggering ubiquity of human activity upon Earth and the startling fragility of our planet and its life systems. This is so momentous that many scientists and scholars now argue that we have left the relative climactic stability of the Holocene and have entered a new geological epoch known as the Anthropocene. This emerging epoch may prompt us not only to reconsider our understanding of Earth systems, but also to reimagine ourselves and what it means to be human. How does the Earth’s precarious state reveal our own? How does this vulnerable condition prompt new ways of thinking and being? The essays that are part of this collection consider how the transformative thinking demanded by our vulnerability inspires us to reconceive our place in the cosmos, alongside each other and, potentially, before God. Who are we “after” (the concept of) the Anthropocene? What forms of thought and structures of feeling might attend us in this state? How might we determine our values and to what do we orient our hopes? Faith, a conceptual apparatus for engaging the unseen, helps us weigh the implications of this massive, but in some ways, mysterious, force on the lives we lead; faith helps us visualize what it means to exist in this new and still emergent reality.

Research & information: general --- Biology, life sciences --- Ecological science, the Biosphere --- globalization --- climate change --- Anthropocene --- planetarity --- jeremiad --- anthropocene --- saving grace --- rhetoric --- doomsday --- spiritual crisis --- eco-anxiety --- despair --- hope --- virtue --- climate crisis --- selfhood --- personhood --- Spirit --- Christology --- breathing --- self-loss --- transformed self --- Book of Nature --- Hugh of Saint Victor --- Bruno Latour --- Timothy Morton --- Slavoj Žižek --- ecology and religion --- eco-theology --- predation --- food --- ecology --- Eucharist --- Earth --- sacrament --- ritual --- resurrection --- Plumwood --- Abram --- sacred --- Yellowstone --- Bhutan --- Jordan River --- religion --- multispecies --- ecotheology --- novelty --- postcolonial ecocriticism --- Derek Walcott --- theodicy --- poetics --- wonder --- eschatology --- Noah --- Adam and Eve --- grief and mourning --- extinction --- climate humanism --- ecocriticism --- faith --- vulnerability --- environment

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[This] is a collection of texts that illuminates the experience of being a Puritan in the New World. The book will be welcomed by all those who are interested in early American literature, religion, and history.-Back cover.

Puritans --- History --- History. --- New England. --- New England --- Church history --- Church history. --- Adam. --- Algonquins. --- Anabaptists. --- Antichrist. --- Antinomians. --- Barbados. --- Bonner, Edmund (bishop). --- Bradstreet, Anne. --- Brightman, Thomas. --- Calvin, John. --- Calvinism. --- Canonchet. --- Danforth, Samuel. --- English Civil War. --- Eusebius. --- Familists. --- Fitch, James. --- Goodhue, Joseph. --- Gookin, Daniel. --- Greenham, Richard. --- Herbert, George. --- Josephus. --- Lewalski, Barbara. --- Marbury, Francis. --- Natick. --- Pe" War (1637). --- Pe"s. --- Quakers. --- Sabbath. --- Samoset. --- aristocracy. --- assurance of salvation. --- baptism. --- catechisms. --- ceremonies. --- childbirth. --- church discipline. --- covenant, of works. --- democracy. --- end times. --- freemanship. --- humiliation. --- hypocrisy. --- idolatry. --- jeremiad. --- justification. --- literacy. --- martyrdom. --- order of nature. --- order of time. --- reprobation. --- sanctification. --- subscription.

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Recent decades have brought to light the staggering ubiquity of human activity upon Earth and the startling fragility of our planet and its life systems. This is so momentous that many scientists and scholars now argue that we have left the relative climactic stability of the Holocene and have entered a new geological epoch known as the Anthropocene. This emerging epoch may prompt us not only to reconsider our understanding of Earth systems, but also to reimagine ourselves and what it means to be human. How does the Earth’s precarious state reveal our own? How does this vulnerable condition prompt new ways of thinking and being? The essays that are part of this collection consider how the transformative thinking demanded by our vulnerability inspires us to reconceive our place in the cosmos, alongside each other and, potentially, before God. Who are we “after” (the concept of) the Anthropocene? What forms of thought and structures of feeling might attend us in this state? How might we determine our values and to what do we orient our hopes? Faith, a conceptual apparatus for engaging the unseen, helps us weigh the implications of this massive, but in some ways, mysterious, force on the lives we lead; faith helps us visualize what it means to exist in this new and still emergent reality.

globalization --- climate change --- Anthropocene --- planetarity --- jeremiad --- anthropocene --- saving grace --- rhetoric --- doomsday --- spiritual crisis --- eco-anxiety --- despair --- hope --- virtue --- climate crisis --- selfhood --- personhood --- Spirit --- Christology --- breathing --- self-loss --- transformed self --- Book of Nature --- Hugh of Saint Victor --- Bruno Latour --- Timothy Morton --- Slavoj Žižek --- ecology and religion --- eco-theology --- predation --- food --- ecology --- Eucharist --- Earth --- sacrament --- ritual --- resurrection --- Plumwood --- Abram --- sacred --- Yellowstone --- Bhutan --- Jordan River --- religion --- multispecies --- ecotheology --- novelty --- postcolonial ecocriticism --- Derek Walcott --- theodicy --- poetics --- wonder --- eschatology --- Noah --- Adam and Eve --- grief and mourning --- extinction --- climate humanism --- ecocriticism --- faith --- vulnerability --- environment

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Heavenly Merchandize offers a critical reexamination of religion's role in the creation of a market economy in early America. Focusing on the economic culture of New England, it views commerce through the eyes of four generations of Boston merchants, drawing upon their personal letters, diaries, business records, and sermon notes to reveal how merchants built a modern form of exchange out of profound transitions in the puritan understanding of discipline, providence, and the meaning of New England. Mark Valeri traces the careers of men like Robert Keayne, a London immigrant punished by his church for aggressive business practices; John Hull, a silversmith-turned-trader who helped to establish commercial networks in the West Indies; and Hugh Hall, one of New England's first slave traders. He explores how Boston ministers reconstituted their moral languages over the course of a century, from a scriptural discourse against many market practices to a providential worldview that justified England's commercial hegemony and legitimated the market as a divine construct. Valeri moves beyond simplistic readings that reduce commercial activity to secular mind-sets, and refutes the popular notion of an inherent affinity between puritanism and capitalism. He shows how changing ideas about what it meant to be pious and puritan informed the business practices of Boston's merchants, who filled their private notebooks with meditations on scripture and the natural order, founded and led churches, and inscribed spiritual reflections in their letters and diaries. Unprecedented in scope and rich with insights, Heavenly Merchandize illuminates the history behind the continuing American dilemma over morality and the marketplace.

Economic order --- United States --- Precisians --- Business --- Puritans --- Church polity --- Congregationalism --- Puritan movements --- Calvinism --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Influence. --- Doctrines --- History --- Religion --- Influence --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Christianity --- E-books --- 17th century --- 18th century --- To 1800 --- History of doctrines --- Trade --- Economics --- Management --- Commerce --- Industrial management --- Truth --- Sermons, American --- Congregational churches --- Bible. --- Christian sects --- Conviction --- Belief and doubt --- Philosophy --- Skepticism --- Certainty --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Pragmatism --- A Model of Christian Charity. --- American Antiquarian Society. --- American Enlightenment. --- Anne Hutchinson. --- Antinomian Controversy. --- Antinomianism. --- Apologetics. --- Atlantic World. --- Bill of credit. --- Boyle Lectures. --- Brattle Street (Cambridge, Massachusetts). --- Calvinism. --- Censure. --- Charles Chauncy. --- Christian Identity. --- Christian fundamentalism. --- Christian socialism. --- Commodity. --- Cotton Mather. --- Creditor. --- Currency Act. --- Currency. --- Customer. --- Daniel Defoe. --- Debtor. --- Deism. --- Divine right of kings. --- Economics. --- Economy and Society. --- Edward Hutchinson (captain). --- England. --- Excommunication. --- Fraud. --- Geneva Bible. --- God. --- Heinrich Bullinger. --- Heresy. --- Increase Mather. --- Jeremiad. --- John Calvin. --- John Coggeshall. --- John Colet. --- John Wheelwright. --- John Winthrop. --- Joseph Addison. --- Joseph Dudley. --- Joshua Scottow. --- King Philip's War. --- Lecture. --- Loyalty. --- Massachusetts Historical Society. --- Max Weber. --- Mercantilism. --- Merchant. --- Moral economy. --- Nathaniel Ward. --- Navigation Acts. --- New England. --- Nicholas Barbon. --- Old South Church. --- Old South. --- On Religion. --- Peter Bulkley. --- Peter Pelham. --- Piety. --- Political economy. --- Poor relief. --- Popular sovereignty. --- Protestant work ethic. --- Protestantism. --- Public expenditure. --- Puritans. --- Religion. --- Robert Cushman. --- Samuel Sewall. --- Samuel Willard. --- Secularism. --- Secularization. --- Sensibility. --- Simon Bradstreet. --- Slavery. --- Society of Jesus. --- South Sea Company. --- Tax. --- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. --- The Wealth and Poverty of Nations. --- Theology. --- Thomas Hooker. --- Thomas Mun. --- Thomas Sprat. --- Treatise. --- Usury. --- Warfare. --- Wealth. --- William Ames. --- William Petty. --- William Phips. --- William Pynchon. --- William Whiston. --- Workhouse. --- United States of America

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Conservatism was born as an anguished attack on democracy. So argues Don Herzog in this arrestingly detailed exploration of England's responses to the French Revolution. Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders ushers the reader into the politically lurid world of Regency England. Deftly weaving social and intellectual history, Herzog brings to life the social practices of the Enlightenment. In circulating libraries and Sunday schools, deferential subjects developed an avid taste for reading; in coffeehouses, alehouses, and debating societies, they boldly dared to argue about politics. Such conservatives as Edmund Burke gaped with horror, fearing that what radicals applauded as the rise of rationality was really popular stupidity or worse. Subjects, insisted conservatives, ought to defer to tradition--and be comforted by illusions. Urging that abstract political theories are manifest in everyday life, Herzog unflinchingly explores the unsavory emotions that maintained and threatened social hierarchy. Conservatives dished out an unrelenting diet of contempt. But Herzog refuses to pretend that the day's radicals were saints. Radicals, he shows, invested in contempt as enthusiastically as did conservatives. Hairdressers became newly contemptible, even a cultural obsession. Women, workers, Jews, and blacks were all abused by their presumed superiors. Yet some of the lowly subjects Burke had the temerity to brand a swinish multitude fought back. How were England's humble subjects transformed into proud citizens? And just how successful was the transformation? At once history and political theory, absorbing and disquieting, Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders challenges our own commitments to and anxieties about democracy.

Conservadurismo --- Democracia. --- Gran Bretaña --- Gran Bretaña --- Gran Bretaña --- Gran Bretaña --- Condiciones sociales --- Condiciones sociales --- Política y gobierno --- Política y gobierno --- Absurdity. --- Anti-Jacobin. --- Aristocracy. --- Atheism. --- Charles James Fox. --- Civility. --- Credential. --- Criticism. --- Deference. --- Dehumanization. --- Despotism. --- Disgust. --- Effeminacy. --- Enthusiasm. --- Equal opportunity. --- False consciousness. --- Farce. --- Freedom of speech. --- George Canning. --- Hairdresser. --- Hannah More. --- Hatred. --- Homosexuality. --- Honour. --- I Wish (manhwa). --- Indictment. --- Injunction. --- Insubordination. --- Invective. --- Irony. --- Jeremiad. --- Jews. --- Joseph Priestley. --- King Mob. --- Legislation. --- Literacy. --- Literature. --- Maria Edgeworth. --- Mary Hays. --- Mary Shelley. --- Mary Wollstonecraft. --- Masculinity. --- Misogyny. --- Monarchy. --- Mr. --- Mrs. --- Multitude. --- Newspaper. --- Nobility. --- Novelist. --- Pamphlet. --- Pamphleteer. --- Parody. --- Paternalism. --- Patriarchy. --- Patriotism. --- Persecution. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Pity. --- Poet laureate. --- Poetry. --- Political philosophy. --- Politician. --- Politics. --- Prejudice. --- Printing press. --- Proscription. --- Prose. --- Public opinion. --- Publication. --- Racism. --- Radicalism (historical). --- Rationality. --- Reflections on the Revolution in France. --- Religion. --- Resentment. --- Ridicule. --- Robert Southey. --- Samuel Johnson. --- Sedition. --- Sensibility. --- Skepticism. --- Slavery. --- Sneer. --- Social order. --- Social status. --- Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. --- Stupidity. --- Suggestion. --- Superiority (short story). --- Tailor. --- Tax. --- Thomas Paine. --- Tories (British political party). --- Whigs (British political party). --- William Cobbett. --- Workhouse. --- Writer. --- Writing.