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In a wonderfully insightful work, Adrian Chastain Weimer explores the politics of martyrdom in early American history. Martyrs' Mirror should be read not just by historians and literary critics but by anyone interested in religious persecution and the struggles among various groups to claim the title 'martyr.' A real tour de force. ----Carla Gardina Pestana, author of Protestant Empire: Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World Adrian Chastain Weimer creatively and persuasively reads the historical imagination of martyrdom and holy suffering to demonstrate how New Englanders relied on the ideals of martyrdom and martyrs to negotiate their religious, social, and racial identities. She challenges us to grasp the significance of persecution and narratives of martyrdom in the worlds-both actual and imagined-of early religious New Englanders from Congregationalists and Separatists to Antinomians, Baptists, and Quakers. --Richard A. Bailey, author of Race and Redemption in Puritan New England Weimer's well-conceived and well-researched book explores how the contested reflections of sixteenth-century martyrological sensibilities indebted especially to John Foxe were refracted among Congregationalists, Separatists, Antinomians, Baptists, and Quakers in seventeenth-century New England. Martyrs' Mirror makes clear that a pervasive sense of persecution as connoting divine favor, intertwined with unresolved rivalries about true Christianity and the true church, were among the cultural commodities that accompanied English Protestants in their transatlantic crossings. --Brad S. Gregory, author of Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe Weimer's book offers a valuable contribution to the study of transatlantic Protestantism. --CHOICE

Weimer's book offers a valuable contribution to the study of transatlantic Protestantism. * CHOICE * Weimer's well-conceived and well-researched book explores how the contested reflections of sixteenth-century martyrological sensibilities indebted especially to John Foxe were refracted among Congregationalists, Separatists, Antinomians, Baptists, and Quakers in seventeenth-century New England. Martyrs' Mirror makes clear that a pervasive sense of persecution as connoting divine favor, intertwined with unresolved rivalries about true Christianity and the true church, were among the cultural commodities that accompanied English Protestants in their transatlantic crossings. * Brad S. Gregory, author of Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe * Adrian Chastain Weimer creatively and persuasively reads the historical imagination of martyrdom and holy suffering to demonstrate how New Englanders relied on the ideals of martyrdom and martyrs to negotiate their religious, social, and racial identities. She challenges us to grasp the significance of persecution and narratives of martyrdom in the worlds-both actual and imagined-of early religious New Englanders from Congregationalists and Separatists to Antinomians, Baptists, and Quakers. * Richard A. Bailey, author of Race and Redemption in Puritan New England * In a wonderfully insightful work, Adrian Chastain Weimer explores the politics of martyrdom in early American history. Martyrs' Mirror should be read not just by historians and literary critics but by anyone interested in religious persecution and the struggles among various groups to claim the title 'martyr.' A real tour de force. * Carla Gardina Pestana, author of Protestant Empire: Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World *

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Adrian Chastain Weimer is Assistant Professor of History at Providence College.

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