Transgressing the Bounds Subversive Enterprises among the Puritan Elite in Massachusetts 1630 1692 1st Edition by Louise Breen 0195138007 9780195138009

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ISBN 10: 0195138007 

ISBN 13: 9780195138009

Author: Louise Breen

This study offers a new interpretation of the Puritan “Antinomian” controversy and a skillful analysis of its wider and long term social and cultural significance. Breen argues that controversy both reflected and fostered larger questions of identity that would persist in Puritan New England during the 17th century. Some issues discussed here include the existence of individualism in a society that valued conformity and the response of members of an inward-looking, localistic culture to those among them of a more “cosmopolitan” nature. Central to Breen’s study is the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, an elite social club that attracted a heterogeneous yet prominent membership, and whose diversity contrasted with the social and religious ideals of the cultural majority.

Table of contents:

1 The Antinomian Moment: A Contest of Cultures in Puritan Massachusetts

2 “I Ame As Jephthah:” Honor, Heresy, and the Massachusetts Ordeal of John Underhill

3 Cosmopolitan Puritans in a Provincial Colony

4 Praying with the Enemy: Daniel Gookin, King Philip’s War, and the Dangers of Intercultural Mediatorship

5 Epilogue and Conclusion

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