دانلود کتاب Puritan Family and Community in the English Atlantic World: Being “Much Afflicted with Conscience”

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Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of figures
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: the Verins—a family “much afflicted with
conscience”
The Verins and family history
The many Puritanisms
A note about methodology
Women and the historical record in the early
modern era
Women’s agency in the early modern era
1. “Gone to New England for conscience sake”: family history as New England history
The Verins
Who were the puritans?
Patterns of English migration
A new community in Providence
The proprietors
The antinomians in Rhode Island
Disputes over land
Post-script
2. “Piety tempers patriarchy”: women of conscience in the English Atlantic world
Women and puritanism
Answering Christ’s call
Puritan ministerial literature
The antinomian crisis continued
The women of Providence
Making sense of women’s experiences
On marriage: puritan prescriptive literature
Barren in Zion
In women’s voices
Family violence in early New England
Sectarian groups and women’s religious rights: the Baptists
and Quakers
Women’s spiritual activism in the English Atlantic
world
Pamphlet culture in the seventeenth-century Atlantic
world
3. “Forced worship stinks in God’s Nostrils”: government, law and liberty of conscience in puritan New England
The English context
Puritan women and English law
Controlling insubordinate wives
On liberty of conscience and forced conformity
Massachusetts body of liberties
The issues in transatlantic context
On John Locke
Conclusion: women of obstinate faith
Works cited
Index