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Orthodoxies in Massachusetts: Rereading American Puritanism.

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| March 01, 1995 | Peterson, Mark A. | COPYRIGHT 1995 Johns Hopkins University Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

In this fast-paced age of e-mail and the fax, most scholars struggle just to keep up with their own fields, and feel constant pressure to follow (if not anticipate) the latest intellectual trends. Puritan specialists share these pressures, but face an additional challenge exemplified by the appearance of two new studies that speak directly to Perry Miller's 1933 classic, Orthodoxy in Massachusetts. Despite decades of revisionist work, Miller's massive writings still dominate American Puritan studies, adding their considerable weight to the burden of anyone who wishes to engage the most recent scholarship in the field. It is pointless to wonder whether more books on ...

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