2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Development of Transatlantic Calvinist Diaspora and Its Relation to the New England Puritan Culture
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23510322
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Area studies
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| Research Institution | Sophia University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | ピューリタニズム / カルヴァン主義 / ニューイングランド / 大覚醒運動 / アメリカ合衆国 / 敬虔主義 / ホィットフィールド / エドワーズ |
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| Research Abstract |
The primary research for this project was conducted in Harvard libraries and archives. Additional research trips to the UK and Europe made it possible to track the transatlantic dissemination of ideas as well as historical dispersion of the international Reformed communities. Although the Reformed had certain theological convictions and practices in common, the local developments varied for each "diaspora" and shaped its features according to distinctive lived experiences. I broadened the basis of the study of 17th-century NE Puritanism by comparing the colonies with the Dutch commerce-oriented cities as well as republican city-states in Europe, rather than merely with the States and the cities of monarchical Britain. I also studied the interaction of NE Puritanism and Continental Pietism, which was a major factor in the formation of the Evangelical Protestantism that has predominated in the US from the 18th century on. Dr. David D. Hall was invited to Sophia U on the final year.
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