Puritans and Catholics in the Trans-Atlantic World 1600-1800

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Crawford Gribben

   Pages 1-4

3. Families and Religious Conflict in the Early Modern Atlantic World

   • Francis J. Bremer

   Pages 5-20

4. Catholics in a Puritan Atlantic: The Liminality of Empire’s Edge

   • R. Scott Spurlock

   Pages 21-46

5. Catholic and Puritan Conspiracies in Samuel Ward’s The Double Deliverance (1621)

   • Ema Vyroubalová

   Pages 47-65

6. Spiritual Treason and the Politics of Intercession: Presbyterians, Laudians and the Church of England

   • Polly Ha

   Pages 66-88

7. Straining the Bonds of Puritanism: English Presbyterians and Massachusetts Congregationalists Debate Ecclesiology, 1636–40

   • Michael P. Winship

   Pages 89-111

8. The Jewish Indian Theory and Protestant Use of Catholic Thought in the Early Modern Atlantic

   • Andrew Crome

   Pages 112-130

9. Reformation and the Wickedness of Port Royal, Jamaica, 1655-c.1692

   • David Manning

   Pages 131-163

10. Cotton Mather, Heterodox Puritanism, and the Construction of America

    • Edward Simon

    Pages 164-174

11. The London Yearly Meeting and Quaker Administrative Innovation in an Atlantic Context

    • Jordan Landes

    Pages 175-194

12. Thinking Like a Presbyterian in 1690s Ireland

    • Robert Armstrong

    Pages 195-216

13. ‘With the Papists They Have Much in Common’: Trans-Atlantic Protestant Communalism and Catholicism, 1700–1850

    • Philip Lockley

    Pages 217-234

14. Back Matter

    Pages 235-247

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For many English puritans, the new world represented new opportunities for the reification of reformation, if not a site within which they might begin to experience the conditions of the millennium itself. For many Irish Catholics, by contrast, the new world became associated with the experience of defeat, forced transportation, indentured service, cultural and religious loss. And yet, as the chapters in this volume demonstrate, the Atlantic experience of puritans and Catholics could be much less bifurcated than some of the established scholarly narratives have suggested: puritans and Catholics could co-exist within the same trans-Atlantic families; Catholics could prosper, just as puritans could experience financial decline; and Catholics and puritans could adopt, and exchange, similar kinds of belief structures and practical arrangements, even to the extent of being mistaken for each other. This volume investigates the history of Puritans and Catholics in the Atlantic world, 1600-1800.

• Puritans
• Catholics
• utopian groups
• diaspora
• Caribbean
• empire
• Familie
• Judaism
• Puritan
• reform
• reformation

“Includes recent monographs and edited collections by several contributors to this volume. ... Overall, the collection provides a nuanced reassessment of confessional relationships and lays out a number of promising directions for future scholarship on the process of religious reform in the Atlantic world.” (Elizabeth Bouldin, Church History, Vol. 87 (1), March, 2018)

“The collection attempts to trace ‘some of the new kinds of religious relationships which were made possible within the Atlantic world’. Taken together, the eleven essays here represent an admirable attempt to capture the breadth and diversity of religious life in the emerging trans-Atlantic. … The volume takes an innovative approach to the intersectionof Protestant and Catholic interests, and represents a welcome contribution to our understanding of the religious cultures nurtured by the expanding early modern trans-Atlantic.” (Matthew C. Bingham, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 68 (3), July, 2017)

• Queen’s University, Belfast, UK

  Crawford Gribben

• University of Glasgow, UK

  R. Scott Spurlock

Crawford Gribben is Professor of Early Modern British History at Queen's University Belfast, UK. He is the author of several books on the literary cultures of Puritanism and evangelicalism, including God's Irishmen (2007), Writing the Rapture: Prophecy fiction in evangelical America (2009), and Evangelical millennialism in the trans-Atlantic world, 1500-2000 (2011).

R. Scott Spurlock is Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. He has held posts at the University of Aberdeen, Trinity College Dublin, the Institute of Theology at Queen's University Belfast and the University of Manchester. Alongside Crawford Gribben, he co-edits two books series: Palgrave Macmillan's 'Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World, 1500–1800' and 'Scottish Religious Cultures: Historical Perspectives'.

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