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Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England

Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England

David D. Hall
3.7/5 ( ratings)
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.
Language
English
Pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Release
October 01, 1990
ISBN
0674962168
ISBN 13
9780674962163

Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England

David D. Hall
3.7/5 ( ratings)
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.
Language
English
Pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Release
October 01, 1990
ISBN
0674962168
ISBN 13
9780674962163

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