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Transgressing the Bounds: Subversive Enterprises Among the Puritan Elite in Massachusetts, 1630-1692

Transgressing the Bounds: Subversive Enterprises Among the Puritan Elite in Massachusetts, 1630-1692

Breen, Louise A.

Hardcover

Series: Religion in America

Religion General General ChristianityGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 0195138007
ISBN13: 9780195138009
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Feb 22 2001
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.96 Width: 6.44 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
This study offers a new interpretation of the Puritan Antinomian controversy and a skillful analysis of its wider and long term social and cultural significance. Breen argues that controversy both reflected and fostered larger questions of identity that would persist in Puritan New England during the 17th century. Some issues discussed here include the existence of individualism in a society that valued conformity and the response of members of an inward-looking, localistic culture to those among them of a more cosmopolitan nature. Central to Breen's study is the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, an elite social club that attracted a heterogeneous yet prominent membership, and whose diversity contrasted with the social and religious ideals of the cultural majority.

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