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Transgressing the Bounds: Subversive Enterprises Among the Puritan Elite in Massachusetts, 1630-1692
Contributor(s): Breen, Louise (Author)

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 ISBN: 0195138007     ISBN-13: 9780195138009
Publisher: Oxford University Press
OUR PRICE: $225.75  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2001
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Annotation: 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.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - State & Local - General
- Religion | History
- Religion | Christianity - Protestant
Dewey: 974.402
LCCN: 00026310
Lexile Measure: 1840(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.96" H x 6.44" W x 9.28" L (1.28 lbs) 304 pages
Themes:
- Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts
- Cultural Region - New England
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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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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