Examines the sins and confessions in church disciplinary records to argue that daily practices created a gendered Puritanism.

God has a bad reputation. Many think of God as wrathful and angry, smiting people for no apparent reason. But the story is more complicated than that. Without m

This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a h

Farrelly uses America's early history of anti-Catholicism to reveal contemporary American understandings of freedom, government, God, the individual, and the co