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Book SynopsisFor many English puritans, the new world represented new opportunities for the reification of reformation, if not a site within which they might begin to experience the conditions of the millennium itself.
Trade Review“Includes recent monographs and edited collections by several contributors to this volume. ... Overall, the collection provides a nuanced reassessment of confessional relationships and lays out a number of promising directions for future scholarship on the process of religious reform in the Atlantic world.” (Elizabeth Bouldin, Church History, Vol. 87 (1), March, 2018)
“The collection attempts to trace ‘some of the new kinds of religious relationships which were made possible within the Atlantic world’. Taken together, the eleven essays here represent an admirable attempt to capture the breadth and diversity of religious life in the emerging trans-Atlantic. … The volume takes an innovative approach to the intersection of Protestant and Catholic interests, and represents a welcome contribution to our understanding of the religious cultures nurtured by the expanding early modern trans-Atlantic.” (Matthew C. Bingham, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 68 (3), July, 2017)
Table of Contents1 Introduction; Crawford Gribben.- 2 Families and Religious Conflict in the Early Modern Atlantic World; Francis J. Bremer.- 3 Catholics in a Puritan Atlantic: The Liminality of Empire’s Edge; R. Scott Spurlock.- 4 Catholic and Puritan Conspiracies in Samuel Ward’s The Double Deliverance (1621); Ema Vyroubalová.- 5 Spiritual Treason and the Politics of Intercession: Presbyterians, Laudians and the Church of England; Polly Ha.- 6 Straining the Bonds of Puritanism: English Presbyterians and Massachusetts Congregationalists Debate Ecclesiology, 1636–40; Michael P. Winship.- 7 The Jewish Indian Theory and Protestant Use of Catholic Thought in the Early Modern Atlantic; Andrew Crome.- 8 Reformation and the Wickedness of Port Royal, Jamaica, 1655– c .1692; David Manning.- 9 Cotton Mather, Heterodox Puritanism, and the Construction of Americ; Edward Simon.- 10 The London Yearly Meeting and Quaker Administrative Innovation in an Atlantic Context; Jordan Landes.- 11 Thinking Like a Presbyterian in 1690s Ireland; Robert Armstrong.- 12 ‘With the Papists They Have Much in Common’: Trans-Atlantic Protestant Communalism and Catholicism, 1700–1850; Philip Lockley.
