A moving and vivid account of what it meant to be a Puritan, this
account draws on diaries, spiritual biographies, and devotional
manuals to explore the daily and weekly ritual and discipline. The
devotional movement was at the heart of Puritanism, and the
spiritual pilgrimage was the soul's progress from birth to death to
rebirth and eternal glory. Puritan worship brought together college
student and illiterate farmer, giving coherence to the
community.