Innerworldly Individualism looks to colonial history, in particular, seventeenth-century New England, to understand the sources of modern nation building

Contents Preface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Charisma, the Church, and the Reformation2 The Origins of Settlement3 Protest and Collective Boundaries4 The Emergent Tensions of Institutionalization5 The Half Way Covenant and the Jeremiad Sermon6 The Institutionalization of Charisma in Society7 ConclusionBibliographyIndex