“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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Main Author: Setran, David (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge University Press [2016]
In: Religion and American culture
Year: 2016, Volume: 26, Issue: 1, Pages: 31-73
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Mather, Cotton 1663-1728 / New England / Puritanism / Faith in providence / Teenagers / Protest / Degeneration
Further subjects:B Puritan
B Puritan childrearing
B Cotton Mather
B declension
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