Transgressing the Bounds by Louise A Breen
This study offers a new interpretation of the puritan 'Antinomian' controversy and a skilful analysis of its wider and long term social and cultural significance. Breen argues that the controversy both reflected and fostered larger questions of identity that would persist in puritan New England throughout the seventeenth century: How much room for individualism among them of a more 'cosmopolitan' nature? How did they respond to those who did not share their celebrated tolerance toward Quakers, Indians, and outside influences in general? Central to Breen's study is the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massuchusetts, a private military company modelled on the fashionable 'artillery gardens' of London. Essentially an elite social club, this organization attracted a heterogeneous yet prominent membership whose diversity contrasted with the the social and religious ideals of the cultural majority.-
Democratic Religion
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Orthodox Christianity in America
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Race and Redemption in Puritan New England
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The Origins of American Religious Nationalism
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Houses Divided
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Reimagining Denominationalism
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Holy Jumpers
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The Life and Death of the Radical Historical Jesus
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Sacred Borders
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A Divinity for All Persuasions
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Fathers on the Frontier
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Tenacious of Their Liberties
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The Revival of 1857-58
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American Methodist Worship
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Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods
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Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770-1810
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The Gospel Working Up
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Missionaries of Republicanism
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A Republic of Righteousness
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Episcopal Women
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The Soul of Development
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Taking Heaven by Storm
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Princeton in the Nation's Service
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The Viper on the Hearth
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Law and Providence in Joseph Bellamy's New England
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Nathaniel Taylor, New Haven Theology, and the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards
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John Williamson Nevin, American Theologian
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Nothing But Christ
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The Church on the World's Turf
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American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions
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Keepers of the Covenant
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Female Piety in Puritan New England
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The Rude Hand of Innovation
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Black Puritan, Black Republican
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Identifying the Image of God
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The Universalist Movement in America, 1770-1880
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A Controversial Spirit
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Old Ship of Zion
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Ojibwe Singers
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Black Religion in America
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Encounters with God
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The Presbyterian Controversy
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Sympathetic Puritans
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American Madonna
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Black Zion
Louise ABreen has written a very good book that tries to make sense out of an immensely complicated subject, dissent in Puritan New England ... If Breen's basic premise is simple, her demonstration of it is complex and nuanced ... Proponents of diversity will get a big boost from this fine book, and dissent will get an intriguing organizing principle. * The Journal of American History *
Louise A. Breen is Associate Professor of History at Kansas State University. She is the author of Transgressing the Bounds: Subversive Enterprises among the Puritan Elite in Massachusetts, 1630-1692.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195138009 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195138007 |
| Title | Transgressing the Bounds |
| Author | Louise A Breen |
| Series | Religion In America |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2001-03-08 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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