Religious Enthusiasm in the New World : : Heresy to Revolution /

Religious Enthusiasm in the New World : : Heresy to Revolution / / David S. Lovejoy.

In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England and America, established society branded as "enthusiasts" those unconventional but religiously devout extremists who stepped across orthodox lines and claimed an intimate, emotional relationship with God. John of Leyden, Anne Hutchinson, Willi...

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Lovejoy, David S.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1985
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (291 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Finger of God: Religious Conceptions of the New World
  • 2. Whirligig Spirits: English Attitudes toward Enthusiasm, 1550-1660
  • 3. Separatists and the New World: Plymouth's Pilgrims
  • 4. Anne Hutchinson and the Naked Christ
  • 5. New England Enthusiasts and the English Civil War
  • 6. Quakers of the First Generation: The Martyrs
  • 7. Quakers from William Perm to John Woolman
  • 8. Continental Strains: From Plockhoy to the Benezets
  • 9. The Great Awakening as Enthusiasm
  • 10. The Great Awakening as Subversion and Conspiracy
  • 11. Enthusiasm and the Cause of Mankind
  • Notes. Index
  • Abbreviations Used in the Notes
  • Notes
  • Index

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