Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. The Finger of God: Religious Conceptions of the New World 5
6. 2. Whirligig Spirits: English Attitudes toward Enthusiasm, 1550-1660 22
7. 3. Separatists and the New World: Plymouth's Pilgrims 44
8. 4. Anne Hutchinson and the Naked Christ 62
9. 5. New England Enthusiasts and the English Civil War 87
10. 6. Quakers of the First Generation: The Martyrs 111
11. 7. Quakers from William Perm to John Woolman 135
12. 8. Continental Strains: From Plockhoy to the Benezets 154
13. 9. The Great Awakening as Enthusiasm 178
14. 10. The Great Awakening as Subversion and Conspiracy 195
15. 11. Enthusiasm and the Cause of Mankind 215
16. Notes. Index
17. Abbreviations Used in the Notes 232
18. Notes 233
19. Index 281