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  • Word Made Fresh

    An Invitation to Poetry for the Church

    by Abram Van Engen ...
    Christianity Today Book Award in Culture, Poetry, and the Arts (2025)Have you ever read a book that turned your world upside down? What about a poem?Poetry has the power to enliven, challenge, change, and enrich our lives. But it can also feel intimidating, confusing, or simply "not for us." In these joyful and wise reflections, Abram Van Engen shows readers how poetry is for everyone—and how it ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anne Bradstreet Now

    Modern Poets Respond

    Edited by Abram Van Engen, Mary Eyring ...
    In 1650, the puritan poet Anne Bradstreet became the first person from British North America to publish a book of poems. The Tenth Muse made her famous, and for almost four centuries, Bradstreet has been canonized, anthologized, studied, and taught. She's remarkable in many ways--partly for her early forms of feminism; partly for her modes of spiritual devotion; partly for the power embedded in ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Feeling Godly

    Religious Affections and Christian Contact in Early North America

    Edited by Abram Van Engen ...
    In 1746, Jonathan Edwards described his philosophy on the process of Christian conversion in A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections. For Edwards, a strict Congregationalist, true conversion is accompanied by a new heart and yields humility, forgiveness, and love—affections that work a change in the person's nature. But, how did other early American communities understand religious affections ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • A History of American Puritan Literature

    Edited by Kristina Bross, Abram Van Engen ...
    For generations, scholars have imagined American puritans as religious enthusiasts, fleeing persecution, finding refuge in Massachusetts, and founding 'America'. The puritans have been read as a product of New England and the origin of American exceptionalism. This History challenges the usual understanding of American puritans, offering new ways of reading their history and their literary culture ... Read more

    $112.39 USD

  • Sympathetic Puritans

    Calvinist Fellow Feeling in Early New England

    by Abram Van Engen ...
    Series series Religion in America
    Revising dominant accounts of Puritanism and challenging the literary history of sentimentalism, Sympathetic Puritans argues that a Calvinist theology of sympathy shaped the politics, religion, rhetoric, and literature of early New England. Scholars have often understood and presented sentimentalism as a direct challenge to stern and stoic Puritan forebears; the standard history traces a cult of ... Read more

    $91.79 USD

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    The Heretical Origins of the American Republic

    by Matthew Stewart ...
    Longlisted for the National Book Award. Where did the ideas come from that became the cornerstone of American democracy?America’s founders intended to liberate us not just from one king but from the ghostly tyranny of supernatural religion. Drawing deeply on the study of European philosophy, Matthew Stewart brilliantly tracks the ancient, pagan, and continental ideas from which America’s ... Read more

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  • Jesus in America

    Personal Savior, Cultural Hero, National Obsession

    by Richard W. Fox ...

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  • America's God

    From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln

    by Mark A. Noll ...
    Religious life in early America is often equated with the fire-and-brimstone Puritanism best embodied by the theology of Cotton Mather. Yet, by the nineteenth century, American theology had shifted dramatically away from the severe European traditions directly descended from the Protestant Reformation, of which Puritanism was in the United States the most influential. In its place arose a ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • An Introduction to the Unitarian and Universalist Traditions

    by Andrea Greenwood, Mark W. Harris ...
    Series series Introduction to Religion
    How is a free faith expressed, organised and governed? How are diverse spiritualities and theologies made compatible? What might a religion based in reason and democracy offer today's world? This book will help the reader to understand the contemporary liberal religion of Unitarian Universalism in a historical and global context. Andrea Greenwood and Mark W. Harris challenge the view that the ... Read more

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  • Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism

    by Bryce Traister ...
    Series series Literature, Religion, & Postsecular Stud
    Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism reconsiders the standard critical view that women’s religious experiences were either silent consent or hostile response to mainstream Puritan institutions. In this groundbreaking new approach to American Puritanism, Bryce Traister asks how gendered understandings of authentic religious experience contributed to the development of seventeenth ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Heathen

    Religion and Race in American History

    by Kathryn Gin Lum ...
    Philip Schaff Prize, American Society of Church HistoryS-USIH Book Award, Society for U.S. Intellectual HistoryMerle Curti Award in Intellectual History, Organization of American Historians“A fascinating book…Gin Lum suggests that, in many times and places, the divide between Christian and ‘heathen’ was the central divide in American life.”—Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker“Offers a dazzling range of ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

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  • Faithful Bodies

    Performing Religion and Race in the Puritan Atlantic

    by Heather Miyano Kopelson ...
    In the seventeenth-century English Atlantic, religious beliefs and practices played a central role in creating racial identity. English Protestantism provided a vocabulary and structure to describe and maintain boundaries between insider and outsider. In this path-breaking study, Heather MiyanoKopelson peels back the layers of conflicting definitions of bodies and competing practices of faith in ... Read more

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