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The Puritan Experiment

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Preface
Chronology
The Origins and Growth of the Puritan Movement	p. 1
Puritanism: Its Essence and Attraction	p. 15
Sources of the Great Migration	p. 29
Massachusetts: The Erection of a City on a Hill	p. 55
Variations on a Theme: Connecticut, New Haven, Rhode Island, and the Eastern Frontier	p. 73
Orthodoxy in New England: The Colony Level	p. 86
Orthodoxy in New England: The Community	p. 101
New England and Puritan England	p. 121
The New England Way in an Age of Religious Ferment	p. 131
Changes in Restoration New England	p. 141
Challenges to the Faith: Pluralism and Declension	p. 154
An Oppressed People: New England's Encounters with Metacom, Governor Andros, and the Witches	p. 168
Art and Science in Colonial New England	p. 186
Race Relations	p. 199
New Directions: Puritanism in the Neglected Decades	p. 209
Enlightenment and Evangelicalism	p. 225
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 234
Index	p. 249
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