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CONTENTS Preface ix Chronology xi 1. The Origins and Growth of the Puritan Movement i 2. Puritanism: Its Essence and Attraction zy j . Sources of the Great Migration 29 4. Massachusetts: The Erection of a City on a Hill 55 5. Variations on a Theme: Connecticut, New Haven, Rhode Island, and the Eastern Frontier 75 6. Orthodoxy in New England: The Colony Level 86 7. Orthodoxy in New England: The Community 101 8. New England and Puritan England 121 p. The New England Way in an Age of Religious Ferment 151 10. Changes in Restoration New England 141 11. Challenges to the Faith: Pluralism and Declension 154 12. An Oppressed People: New England's Encounters with Metacom, Governor Andros, and the Witches 168 13. Art and Science in Colonial New England 186 14. Race Relations 199 15. New Directions: Puritanism in the Neglected Decades 209 16. Enlightenment and Evangelicalism 225 viii Contents Suggestionsfor Further Reading 234 Index 249 Illustration sections begin on pages 49 and 95 ...

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