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Evaluating North Atlantic Religious History, 1640–1859. A Review Article

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Mark A. Noll
Affiliation:
Wheaton College (Illinois)

Abstract

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1 Besides the works reviewed here, many other substantial studies have been published recently. A sampling of ten books from just three years, 1986–1988, is enough to suggest the different types of religious history now appearing regularly: Bonomi, Patricia U., Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986);Google ScholarLewis, Donald M., Lighten Their Darkness: The Evangelical Mission to Working-Class London, 1828–1860 (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1986);Google ScholarRawlyk, George, ed., The Sermons of Henry Alline (Hantsport, Nova Scotia: Lancelot, 1986);Google ScholarStout, Harry S., The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986);Google ScholarJamie Ferreira, M., Skepticism and Reasonable Doubt: The British Naturalist Tradition in Wilkins, Hume, Reid, and Newman (New York: Oxford University Pressx, 1987);Google ScholarMichael Hall, , The Last American Puritan: The Life of Increase Mather (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1987);Google ScholarHatch, Nathan O. and Stout, Harry S., eds., Jonathan Edwards and the American Experience (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988);Google ScholarHilton, Boyd, The Age of Atonement: The Influence of Evangelicalism on Social and Economic Thought, 1785–1865 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988);Google ScholarHughes, Richard T. and Leonard Allen, C., Illusions of Innocence:Protestant Primitivism in America, 1630–1875 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988);Google Scholar and Lovegrove, Deryck W., Established Church, Sectarian People: Itinerancy and the Transformation of English Dissent, 1780–1830 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).CrossRefGoogle Scholar For Scotland, in addition, a major work of great usefulness was published in 1985, Sher, Richard B., Church and Univesity in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Moderate Literati of Edinburgh (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985).Google Scholar

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