The Puritan Origins of the American Self
Author: Sacvan Bercovitch
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1975-01-01
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0300021178
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Author: Sacvan Bercovitch
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1975-01-01
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0300021178
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Errata slip inserted. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author: Sacvan Bercovitch
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1975-01-01
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780300021172
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Author: George McKenna
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008-10-01
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 0300137672
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this absorbing book, George McKenna ranges across the entire panorama of American history to track the development of American patriotism. That patriotism—shaped by Reformation Protestantism and imbued with the American Puritan belief in a providential “errand”—has evolved over 350 years and influenced American political culture in both positive and negative ways, McKenna shows. The germ of the patriotism, an activist theology that stressed collective rather than individual salvation, began in the late 1630s in New England and traveled across the continent, eventually becoming a national phenomenon. Today, American patriotism still reflects its origins in the seventeenth century. By encouraging cohesion in a nation of diverse peoples and inspiring social reform, American patriotism has sometimes been a force for good. But the book also uncovers a darker side of the nation’s patriotism—a prejudice against the South in the nineteenth century, for example, and a tendency toward nativism and anti-Catholicism. Ironically, a great reversal has occurred, and today the most fervent believers in the Puritan narrative are the former “outsiders”—Catholics and Southerners. McKenna offers an interesting new perspective on patriotism’s role throughout American history, and he concludes with trenchant thoughts on its role in the post-9/11 era.
Author: Sacvan Bercovitch
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Published: 2012-04-19
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0299288633
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When Sacvan Bercovitch’s The American Jeremiad first appeared in 1978, it was hailed as a landmark study of dissent and cultural formation in America, from the Puritans’ writings through the major literary works of the antebellum era. For this long-awaited anniversary edition, Bercovitch has written a deeply thoughtful and challenging new preface that reflects on his classic study of the role of the political sermon, or jeremiad, in America from a contemporary perspective, while assessing developments in the field of American studies and the culture at large.
Author: Sacvan Bercovitch
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-14
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1317796187
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Rites of Assent examines the cultural strategies through which "America" served as a vehicle simultaneously for diversity and cohesion, fusion and fragmentation. Taking an ethnographic, cross-cultural approach, The Rites of Assent traces the meanings and purposes of "America" back to the colonial typology of mission, and specifically (in chapters on Puritan rhetoric, Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, and the movement from Revival to Revolution) to the legacy of early New England.
Author: Tracy Fessenden
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-03-05
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1136692290
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From witch trials to pickaxe murderers, from brothels to convents, and from slavery to Toni Morrison's Paradise, these essays provide fascinating and provocative insights into our sexual and religious conventions and beliefs.
Author: Abram C. Van Engen
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2020-02-25
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 0300252315
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A fresh, original history of America’s national narratives, told through the loss, recovery, and rise of one influential Puritan sermon from 1630 to the present day In this illuminating book, Abram Van Engen shows how the phrase “City on a Hill,” from a 1630 sermon by Massachusetts Bay governor John Winthrop, shaped the story of American exceptionalism in the twentieth century. By tracing the history of Winthrop’s speech, its changing status throughout time, and its use in modern politics, Van Engen asks us to reevaluate our national narratives. He tells the story of curators, librarians, collectors, archivists, antiquarians, and often anonymous figures who emphasized the role of the Pilgrims and Puritans in American history, paving the way for the saving and sanctifying of a single sermon. This sermon’s rags-to-riches rise reveals the way national stories take shape and shows us how those tales continue to influence competing visions of the country—the many different meanings of America that emerge from its literary past.
Author: David Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Publisher: Banner of Truth
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume brings together, for the first time, the addresses given by Dr Lloyd-Jones at the Puritan Studies and Westminster Conferences between 1959 and 1978.
Author: Abram C. Van Engen
Publisher: Religion in America
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0199379637
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Van Engen argues that a Calvinist theology of sympathy shaped the politics, religion, rhetoric, and literature of early New England. He revises dominant accounts of Puritanism and challenges the literary history of sentimentalism by unearthing the pervasive presence of sympathy in a large archive of Puritan sermons, treatises, tracts, poems, journals, histories, and captivity narratives.