Book Description
Examines the sins and confessions in church disciplinary records to argue that daily practices created a gendered Puritanism.
Author : Monica D. Fitzgerald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 31,1 MB
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1108478786
Examines the sins and confessions in church disciplinary records to argue that daily practices created a gendered Puritanism.
Author : David Hackett Fischer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 981 pages
File Size : 21,89 MB
Release : 1991-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 019974369X
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
Author : David T. Lamb
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 32,35 MB
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1514003503
God has a bad reputation. Many think of God as wrathful and angry, smiting people for no apparent reason. But the story is more complicated than that. Without minimizing the sometimes harsh realities of the biblical record, David Lamb unpacks the complexity of the Old Testament and assembles an overall picture that gives coherence to our understanding of God in both Old and New Testaments.
Author : Noah Rothman
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,55 MB
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0063160013
“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” -H.L. Mencken The Left used to be the party of the hippies and the free spirits. Now it’s home to woke scolds and humorless idealogues. The New Puritans can judge a person’s moral character by their clothes, Netflix queue, fast food favorites, the sports they watch, and the company they keep. No choice is neutral, no sphere is private. Not since the Puritans has a political movement wanted so much power over your thoughts, hobbies, and preferences every minute of your day. In the process, they are sucking the joy out of life. In The Rise of the New Puritans, Noah Rothman explains how, in pursuit of a better world, progressives are ruining the very things which make life worth living. They’ve created a society full of verbal trip wires and digital witch hunts. Football? Too violent. Fusion food? Appropriation. The nuclear family? Oppressive. Witty, deeply researched, and thorough, The Rise of the New Puritans encourages us to spurn a movement whose primary goal has become limiting happiness. It uncovers the historical roots of the left’s war on fun and reminds us of the freedom and personal fulfillment at the heart of the American experiment.
Author : Eve LaPlante
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 37,51 MB
Release : 2004
Category :
ISBN : 0060562331
Author : Maura Jane Farrelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 15,60 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 1107164508
Farrelly uses America's early history of anti-Catholicism to reveal contemporary American understandings of freedom, government, God, the individual, and the community.
Author : Michael P. Winship
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 35,50 MB
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 030012628X
On fire for God--a sweeping history of puritanism in England and America Begun in the mid-sixteenth century by Protestant nonconformists keen to reform England's church and society while saving their own souls, the puritan movement was a major catalyst in the great cultural changes that transformed the early modern world. Providing a uniquely broad transatlantic perspective, this groundbreaking volume traces puritanism's tumultuous history from its initial attempts to reshape the Church of England to its establishment of godly republics in both England and America and its demise at the end of the seventeenth century. Shedding new light on puritans whose impact was far-reaching as well as on those who left only limited traces behind them, Michael Winship delineates puritanism's triumphs and tribulations and shows how the puritan project of creating reformed churches working closely with intolerant godly governments evolved and broke down over time in response to changing geographical, political, and religious exigencies.
Author : Thomas Boston
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 25,58 MB
Release : 1863
Category : Sermons, English
ISBN :
Author : Devon Price
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 34,67 MB
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1982140135
From social psychologist Dr. Devon Price, a conversational, stirring call to “a better, more human way to live” (Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author) that examines the “laziness lie”—which falsely tells us we are not working or learning hard enough. Extra-curricular activities. Honors classes. 60-hour work weeks. Side hustles. Like many Americans, Dr. Devon Price believed that productivity was the best way to measure self-worth. Price was an overachiever from the start, graduating from both college and graduate school early, but that success came at a cost. After Price was diagnosed with a severe case of anemia and heart complications from overexertion, they were forced to examine the darker side of all this productivity. Laziness Does Not Exist explores the psychological underpinnings of the “laziness lie,” including its origins from the Puritans and how it has continued to proliferate as digital work tools have blurred the boundaries between work and life. Using in-depth research, Price explains that people today do far more work than nearly any other humans in history yet most of us often still feel we are not doing enough. Filled with practical and accessible advice for overcoming society’s pressure to do more, and featuring interviews with researchers, consultants, and experiences from real people drowning in too much work, Laziness Does Not Exist “is the book we all need right now” (Caroline Dooner, author of The F*ck It Diet).
Author : Bruce Blaxland
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 32,77 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :