Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 634 g
The Congregationalists in Colonial Massachusetts
Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 634 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-511360-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press
This study approaches the Puritan experience in church government from the perspective of both the pew and the pulpit. For the past ten years, James Cooper has immersed himself in local manuscript church records. These previously untapped documents provide a fascinating glimpse of lay-clerical relations in colonial Massachusetts, and reveal that ordinary churchgoers shaped the development of Congregational practices as mych as the clerical and elite personages who for so long have populated histories of the period. Cooper's new findings both challenge existing models of church hierarchy and offer a new dimension to our understanding of the origins of New England democracy.
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- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen
