Price of Redemption: The Spiritual Economy of Puritan New England

by Mark Peterson and Mark A. Peterson

Book Overview

Beginning with the first colonists and continuing down to the present, the dominant narrative of New England Puritanism has maintained that piety and prosperity were enemies, that the rise of commerce delivered a mortal blow to the fervor of the founders, and that later generations of Puritans fell away from their religious heritage as they moved out across the New England landscape. This book offers a new alternative to the prevailing narrative,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804729123
• ISBN13: 9780804729123
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"