num_pages: 336
description: This book tells an extraordinary story of the people of early New England and their spiritual lives. It is about ordinary people―farmers, housewives, artisans, merchants, sailors, aspiring scholars―struggling to make sense of their time and place on earth. David Hall describes a world of religious consensus and a variety of conflicting beliefs and believers ranging from the committed core to outright dissenters. He reveals for the first time the many-layered complexity of colonial religious life, and the importance within it of traditions derived from those of the Old World. We see a religion of the laity that was to merge with the tide of democratic nationalism in the nineteenth century, and that remains with us today as the essence of Protestant America.
language: English
title: Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England
titlecomplete: Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England
genres: 17th Century, Religion, Cultural, School, Grad School, American History, British Literature, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 193
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Merle Curti Award
publisher: Harvard University Press