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100 1 $aStaloff, Darren,$d1961-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96121203
245 14 $aThe making of an American thinking class :$bintellectuals and intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts /$cDarren Staloff.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c1998.
263 $a9711
300 $axv, 276 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tPrologue: The Struggle for the Company --$g1.$tThe Creation of the New England Way: Cultural Authority and the Puritan Thinking Class --$g2.$tJohn Cotton, Roger Williams, and the Problem of Charisma --$g3.$tJohn Cotton and the Dialectic of Antinomian Dissent --$g4.$tAntinomianism Defeated --$g5.$tOrdering the One-Party Regime --$g6.$tEstablishing Orthodoxy --$g7.$tFrom the Cambridge Platform to the Half-Way Covenant --$g8.$tThe Restoration and the Politics of Declension --$g9.$tIncrease Mather and the Decline of Cultural Domination --$gApp. B.$tToward a Postrevisionist Interpretation of Puritanism: Religion, Society, and Politics.
520 $aThis pathbreaking study offers a radical new interpretation of the political, religious, and intellectual history of Puritan Massachusetts. More than simply a theologically inspired Biblical commonwealth, the church state of the Bay Colony was a seventeenth-century one-party state, where congregations served as ideological cells.
520 8 $aAuthority within this "regime" was restricted to an educated elite of ministers and magistrates, who used their biblicist and high-cultural expertise to legitimate their empowerment. The course of events in Puritan Massachusetts was dictated by the struggles of laypersons against this Puritan "thinking class," eventually leading to the erosion of the Puritan intellectuals' political authority and the colony's transformation into a Puritan lay republic in the years before the loss of the charter.
520 8 $aBy highlighting the ways in which godly intellectuals fomented a new ideological politics and thus destabilized traditional political authorities, Staloff has raised questions about the presumed moderation of the Puritan movement, revealing its potentially radical and innovative side. More generally, this work offers a strategy for synthesizing the hitherto disparate fields of social and intellectual history by treating intellectuals as a distinct social group with their own interests and agendas.
650 0 $aPuritans$zMassachusetts$xIntellectual life.
650 0 $aElite (Social sciences)$zMassachusetts$xHistory$y17th century.
651 0 $aMassachusetts$xIntellectual life$y17th century.
651 0 $aMassachusetts$xPolitics and government$yTo 1775.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85081939
852 00 $bglx$hF67$i.S8 1998
852 00 $bbar$hF67$i.S8 1997