TY - JOUR
AU - Lucas, Paul R.
AB - Reviews of B ooks tocombat simple and satisfying, yet confining, stereo­ chon, whose ties to European and English Socinian­ types. There is surely much to be learned about the ism are revealed in greater detail than ever before. perceptions of the writer's responsibility in Japan, Most readers of this work will come away con­ both on the part of writers and on the part of vinced that dissent was more widespread, incessant, officials, and about conftict between their respective and inftuential than they had suspected, yet they attitudes. But I am not sure Rubin's polished narra­ mayaiso suspect that the author permits the dissent­ tive has shown us much about the dynamics of this ing tail to wag the dog of Congregationalist Puritan­ that we have not often heard before. ism. The data presented do not necessitate the THOMAS M. HUBER conclusion that reiigious heterogeneity was the rule Durham, N orth Carolina in early New England society. Part of the argument to this effect rests on simple exaggeration of the radicals' impact, as in Gura's insistence that the insubordination of servants, anticlerical sentiments, UNITED STATES and the Massachusetts deputies' drive to trim the magistrates' power were primarily manifestations of 
TI - Kenneth Silverman. The Life and Times of Cotton Mather. New York: Harper and Row. 1984. Pp. x, 479. $29.95
JO - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/90.2.478-a
DA - 1985-04-01
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SP - 478
EP - 479
VL - 90
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
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