Declension Comes Home: Cotton Mather, Male Youth Rebellion, and the Hope of Providential Affliction in Puritan New England
The theme of generational religious decline has been a staple of New England Puritan historiography. Yet while scholars have examined these issues at the larger cultural and ecclesial levels, few have looked at the small-scale manifestations of such declension within Puritan parent-child relations...
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Religion and American culture
Year: 2016, Volume: 26, Issue: 1, Pages: 31-73 |
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Mather, Cotton 1663-1728
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