Introduction: the new Puritan studies / Bryce Traister
Part I. Unexpected Puritans
Sovereignty and grace: Hobbes and the Puritans / Paul Downes
Sabbatai Sevi and the Ottoman Jews in increase Mather's The mystery of Israel's salvation / Nan Goodman
Benjamin Colman, laughter, and church membership in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Massachusetts / Michael Schuldiner
A pre-millennial portrait during the revocation of the Massachusetts charter / Linda M. Johnson
Part II. Puritanism's others
Imperial translations: new world missionary linguistics, indigenous interpreters, and universal languages in the early modern era / Allison Margaret Bigelow
Native poetics in Edward Johnson's Wonder-Working Providence of Sions Saviour in New England / Betty Booth Donohue
Pregnancy and anxiety: medicine, religion, and the occult in Cotton Mather's The Angel of Bethesda / Brice Peterson
Piracy, piety, and providence in Cotton Mather's The vial poured out upon the sea / Jason M. Payton
Part III. Puritan afterlives
Puritan acts and monuments / Jonathan Beecher Field
Toward digital Puritan studies: iconoclasm, child mortality, and patterns of mourning in the Farber gravestone collection / Harry Brown
What do we know about the New England Puritans, and when did we know it? Twenty-first century reconsiderations of William Bradford and John Winthrop / Michael Ditmore
Claiming the high ground: Catholics, Protestants, and the City on a Hill / Abram Van Engen
Afterword: '... and American literature' / Bryce Traister.