A Cotton Mather Reader

A Cotton Mather Reader
Cotton Mather, Reiner Smolinski, Kenneth P Minkema
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Hardback
h235 x 156mm - 428pg
28 Apr 2022 US
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9780300229974
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An authoritative selection of the writings of one of the most important early American writers "A brilliant collection that reveals the extraordinary range of Cotton Mather' s interests and contributions-by far the best introduction to the mind of the Puritan divine. "-Francis J. Bremer, author of Lay Empowerment and the Development of Puritanism Cotton Mather (1663-1728) has a wide presence in American culture, but very few people have ever read a significant portion of his work. The sheer volume of Mather' s corpus makes it challenging. In his sixty-five years, he was responsible for some of the most important contributions to history, medicine, and theology in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, in addition to having written some 450 books and pamphlets, hundreds of sermons, and thousands of letters. This wide-ranging volume includes topical selections on autobiography and meditation; New England history; gender, childrearing, and education; natural science and medicine; mercantilism and paper money; biblical interpretation; Salem witchcraft; race, slavery, and servitude; Native Americans and captivity; and pietism, world missions, and millennialism. This reader will serve as both a reference for scholars and a textbook for students and should help bring renewed attention to this important figure.
"With its magisterial grasp of previous Mather scholarship and its mastery of Mather' s published and unpublished writings (a huge feat in itself), this reader marks the culmination of Mather' s intellectual and academic rehabilitation. "-Mark Noll, University of Notre Dame "A Cotton Mather Reader is a remarkable achievement. In 300 pages, the editors capture this most prolific author whole, offering a complete and rounded portrait of a man too-often depicted as two-dimensional, the caricatured ' witch hunter' of Salem. Instead, we see Mather as the sophisticated intellectual, preacher, public figure, and family man that he was, engaged in every aspect of a complex and changing colonial world-politics, economics, race relations, medicine, science, international relations, and biblical interpretation. Mather' s life embodied the contradictions and tensions of the society he lived in and helped to shape, as any reader of this marvelous collection will see. "-Mark Petersen, author of The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630-1865 "A brilliant collection that reveals the extraordinary range of Cotton Mather' s interests and contributions-by far the best introduction to the mind of the Puritan divine. "-Francis J. Bremer, author of Lay Empowerment and the Development of Puritanism "This anthology situates Mather as a cosmopolitan writer and effective pastor, bringing us much closer to the real person. "-David D. Hall, Harvard Divinity School "For too long Cotton Mather has languished in the shadow of his fellow colonial theologian Jonathan Edwards. Now, thanks to this prodigious volume, that scholarly imbalance has been definitively addressed. This meticulously researched and documented collection of Mather' s major writings provides a comprehensive overview of early America' s most prolific author. These selections reveal a linguistic genius fluent in seven languages and remarkably informed over a variety of subjects spanning theology, witchcraft, foreign missions, medicine, slavery, and Native American ethnography. This volume offers an indispensable tool for unlocking the full spectrum of early American thought and practice and represents an essential addition to any early American library. "-Harry Stout, Yale University
Reiner Smolinski is professor of English at Georgia State University and general editor of Cotton Mather' s Biblia Americana. Kenneth P. Minkema is editor of The Works of Jonathan Edwards and director of the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University.
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ISBN-13: 9780300229974
Published: 28 Apr 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Yale University Press
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 235mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 428

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