The Protestant Interest: New England After Puritanism
Thomas S. Kidd
Abstract
During the early eighteenth century, colonial New England witnessed the end of Puritanism and the emergence of a revivalist religious movement that culminated in the evangelical awakenings of the 1740s. This book explores the religious history of New England during the period and offers new reasons for this change in cultural identity. After England's Glorious Revolution, New Englanders abandoned their previous hostility toward Britain, viewing it as the chosen leader in the Protestant fight against world Catholicism. They also imagined themselves as part of an international Protestant communi ... More
Keywords: colonial New England, Puritanism, evangelicalism, Glorious Revolution, Protestantism, Catholicism, pan-Protestantism, revivalism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2004 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300104219 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: October 2013 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300104219.001.0001 |
