This book presents the history of two religious sects successfully established in seventeenth-century Massachusetts, where it was illegal to participate in any faith other than the legally established congregationalism of the Puritan founders of the colony. Taking a comparative approach, the author examines the Quaker meeting in Salem and the Baptist church in Boston over more than a century. The work opens with the dramatic events surrounding dissenters' efforts to gain a foothold in the colony, and goes on to locate sectarians within their families and communities, and to examine their beliefs and the changing nature of the organizations they founded and their interactions with the larger community and its leaders. The work deals with the religiosity of lay colonists, finding that men and women responded to these sects differently. It also analyzes sociological theories of sectarian evolution, the politics of dissent, and changes in beliefs and practices.
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Quakers and Baptists in Colonial Massachusetts is a welcome addition...this book is both a good starting point for those just beginning to be interested in this subject, and a good review of the literature for those already immersed in it." Sociological Analysis
"...we should be grateful for what Pestana has given us...Doing the historian's real work, telling us what has not been told before, is the author's strength." The Catholic Historical Review
"...this is a model work that should inspire others to continue to examine communities where Dissenters were numerous." American Historical Review
"Pestana has uncovered a substantial amount of significant new information...Pestana's accomplishment in creating a history of two alternatives to Puritanism is noteworthy because source materials are quite limited...The result is a provocative local history." The New England Quarterly
"Pestana's willingness to tackle a comparative model over time, while remaining alert to changes in both sects as well as in Massachusetts society, makes this a useful addition to the literature on colonial America." Journal of American History
"Pestana's treatment of Quakers is pioneering. This book gives us a glimpse of a group of radical sectarians that revises our understanding of early Quakers." Reviews in American History
"...social-religious history at its rigorous best, thoroughly researched and intelligently argued. Most important, it has a story to tell." Historian
"...this work is an important addition to our knowledge of dissent in New England and provides a model for more such carefully focused studies." William G. McLoughlin, William and Mary Quarterly
"...precise, suggestive, and pioneering." Edwin S. Gaustad, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"...we should be grateful for what Pestana has given us...Doing the historian's real work, telling us what has not been told before, is the author's strength." The Catholic Historical Review
"...this is a model work that should inspire others to continue to examine communities where Dissenters were numerous." American Historical Review
"Pestana has uncovered a substantial amount of significant new information...Pestana's accomplishment in creating a history of two alternatives to Puritanism is noteworthy because source materials are quite limited...The result is a provocative local history." The New England Quarterly
"Pestana's willingness to tackle a comparative model over time, while remaining alert to changes in both sects as well as in Massachusetts society, makes this a useful addition to the literature on colonial America." Journal of American History
"Pestana's treatment of Quakers is pioneering. This book gives us a glimpse of a group of radical sectarians that revises our understanding of early Quakers." Reviews in American History
"...social-religious history at its rigorous best, thoroughly researched and intelligently argued. Most important, it has a story to tell." Historian
"...this work is an important addition to our knowledge of dissent in New England and provides a model for more such carefully focused studies." William G. McLoughlin, William and Mary Quarterly
"...precise, suggestive, and pioneering." Edwin S. Gaustad, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
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This book presents the history of two religious sects successfully established in seventeenth-century Massachusetts, where it was illegal to participate in any faith other than the legally established congregationalism of the Puritan founders of the colony.
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A Quaker movement emerged in western Salem in 1657-8. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
orthodox colonists, more churchlike, lay prophecy, ordinary colonists, halfway covenant, orthodox fold, orthodox establishment, church purity, spiritual options, established faith, orthodox community, orthodox ministers, colonial establishment, meeting records Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New England, Baptist Record Book, Increase Mather, New York, Rhode Island, Salem Quakers, Cotton Mather, General Court, Great Awakening, John Farnum, Salem Monthly Meeting, Thomas Goold, Charlestown Church, Boston Baptists, Society of Friends, Elisha Callendar, Second Church, George Fox, Zaccheus Collins, Colonial Northeast, Genealogical Dictionary, History of Salem, Mary Goold, Edward Drinker, Jeremiah Condy New!
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A Quaker movement emerged in western Salem in 1657-8. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
orthodox colonists, more churchlike, lay prophecy, ordinary colonists, halfway covenant, orthodox fold, orthodox establishment, church purity, spiritual options, established faith, orthodox community, orthodox ministers, colonial establishment, meeting records Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New England, Baptist Record Book, Increase Mather, New York, Rhode Island, Salem Quakers, Cotton Mather, General Court, Great Awakening, John Farnum, Salem Monthly Meeting, Thomas Goold, Charlestown Church, Boston Baptists, Society of Friends, Elisha Callendar, Second Church, George Fox, Zaccheus Collins, Colonial Northeast, Genealogical Dictionary, History of Salem, Mary Goold, Edward Drinker, Jeremiah Condy New!
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- Quakers in the Colonial Northeast by Arthur J. Worrall on 8 pages
- The Quakers and the English Revolution by Barry Reay on 4 pages
- Rhode Island: A History (States and the Nation) by William McLoughlin on page 96, page 125, and page 160
- Quakers in the American Colonies, The by Rufus M. Jones on page 92, page 96, and page 125
- Commerce and Culture: The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1690-1750 by Christine Heyrman in Front Matter, page 95, and page 129
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- Subjects unto the Same King: Indians, English, and the Contest for Authority in Colonial New England (Early American Studies) by Jenny Hale Pulsipher on 4 pages
- Women in Early American Religion, 1600-1850: The Puritan and Evangelical Traditions (Christianity and Society in the Modern World) by Marilyn J. Westerkamp in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Women in Early American Religion 1600-1850: The Puritan and Evangelical Traditions (Christianity and Society in the Modern World) by Marilyn J. Westerkamp in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Fissures in the Rock: New England in the Seventeenth Century (Revisiting New England) by Richard Archer in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England by Jane Kamensky in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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