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ISBN 10: 0521860881 

ISBN 13: 9780521860888

Author: John Coffey, Paul C. H. Lim

‘Puritan’ was originally a term of contempt, and ‘Puritanism’ has often been stereotyped by critics and admirers alike. As a distinctive and particularly intense variety of early modern Reformed Protestantism, it was a product of acute tensions within the post-Reformation Church of England. But it was never monolithic or purely oppositional, and its impact reverberated far beyond seventeenth-century England and New England. This Companion broadens our understanding of Puritanism, showing how students and scholars might engage with it from new angles and uncover the surprising diversity that fermented beneath its surface. The book explores issues of gender, literature, politics and popular culture in addition to addressing the Puritans’ core concerns such as theology and devotional praxis, and coverage extends to Irish, Welsh, Scottish and European versions of Puritanism as well as to English and American practice. It challenges readers to re-evaluate this crucial tradition within its wider social, cultural, political and religious contexts.

Table of contents:

Part I English Puritanism

1 Antipuritanism

2 The growth of English Puritanism

3 Early Stuart Puritanism

4 The Puritan Revolution

5 Later Stuart Puritanism

Part II Beyond England

6 Puritanism and the continental Reformed churches

7 The Puritan experiment in New England, 1630–1660

8 New England, 1660–1730

9 Puritanism in Ireland and Wales

10 The problem of Scotland’s Puritans

Part III Major themes

11 Practical divinity and spirituality

12 Puritan polemical divinity and doctrinal controversy

13 Puritans and the Church of England: historiography and ecclesiology

14 Radical Puritanism, c. 1558–1660

15 Puritan millenarianism in Old and New England

16 The godly and popular culture

17 Puritanism and gender

18 Puritanism and literature

Part IV Puritanism and posterity

19 Puritan legacies

20 The historiography of Puritanism

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