The New England soul
preaching and religious culture in colonial New England
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Author
Publication
1986 - Oxford University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
99,500 words, Guess
Page Count
398 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL2547898M
- ISBN-139780195039580
- ISBN-100195039580
- OCLC Control Number12978450
- OCLC Control Numbernewenglandsoulpr00stou
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number85029853
- Goodreads4048538
- LibraryThing505591
Classifications
- DDC251/.00974
- LCCBV4208.U6 S75 1986
Description
This study explores a seventeenth- and eighteenth-century medium of communications -- the New England sermon -- whose topical range and social influence were so powerful in shaping cultural values, meanings, and a sense of corporate purpose that even television pales in comparison. Unlike modern mass media, the sermon stood alone in local New England contexts as the only regular (at least weekly) medium of public communication. As a channel of information, it combined religious, educational, and journalistic functions, and supplied all the key terms necessary to understand existence in this world and the next. As the only event in public assembly that regularly brought the entire community together, it also represented the central ritual of social order and control. Seldom, if ever before, did so many people hear the same message of purpose and direction over so long a period of time as did the New England "Puritans." - Introduction.
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- The New England soul: preaching and religious culture in colonial New England
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