This book traces the shaping, triumph, and decline of the Puritan world, while also examining the role of religion in the shaping of American society and the role of the Puritan legacy in American history.

The Puritan Way of Death is more than a book about Puritans or about death.

Puritan Legacies is a challenging example of the "New Historicism" we have so long needed.

This is a book of value and interest for scholars and students, clergy and laity alike.

This book discusses the desire of the Puritans to be socially virtuous and their wish to force social virtue upon others.

With bold analytic intelligence, David Zaret explores this puzzling conflict between covenant theology and pure Calvinism. In the process he demonstrates that popular beliefs and activities had tremendous influence on Puritan religion.

This book offers a new alternative to the prevailing narrative, which has been frequently criticized but heretofore never adequately replaced. The author s argument follows two main strands.

This book fills those gaps.” —Library Journal A Choice Outstanding Academic Titles

Here, Bailey turns his gaze northward and to an earlier period, to the origins of puritan New England, and contends that as colonial New Englanders offered spiritual redemption to their neighbors they began creating raced identities for ...