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The Post-Reformation Era, 1559-1689,edited by John Coffey: Presents a revisionist account of the origins of Anglophone Protestant Dissent Adopts a comparative approach between Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Baptists, and Quakers Harvests a wealth of new research on Dissenting religious culture through recent scholarly editions and projectsThe Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume I traces the emergence of Anglophone Protestant Dissent in the post-Reformation era between the Act of Uniformity (1559) and the Act of Toleration (1689). It reassesses the relationship between establishment and Dissent, emphasising that Presbyterians and Congregationalists were serious contenders in the struggle for religious hegemony. Under Elizabeth I and the early Stuarts, separatists were few in number, and Dissent was largely contained within the Church of England, as nonconformists sought to reform the national Church from within. During the English Revolution (1640-60), Puritan reformers seized control of the state but splintered into rival factions with competing programmes of ecclesiastical reform. Only after the Restoration, following the ejection of two thousand Puritan clergy from the Church, did most Puritans become Dissenters, often with great reluctance. Dissent was not the inevitable terminus of Puritanism, but the contingent and unintended consequence of the Puritan drive for further reformation. The story of Dissent is thus bound up with the contest for the established Church, not simply a heroic tale of persecuted minorities contending for religious toleration. Nevertheless, in the half century after 1640, religious pluralism became a fact of English life, as denominations formed and toleration was widely advocated. The volume explores how Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Baptists, and Quakers began to forge distinct identities as the four major denominational traditions of English Dissent. It tracks the proliferation of Anglophone Protestant Dissent beyond England—in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the Dutch Republic, New England, Pennsylvania, and the Caribbean. And it presents the latest research on the culture of Dissenting congregations, including their relations with the parish, their worship, preaching, gender relations, and lay experience.Table of Contents1: Presbyterianism in Elizabethan &#38; Early Stuart England , Polly Ha2: Presbyterians in the English Revolution , Elliot Vernon3: Presbyterians in the Restoration , George Southcombe4: Congregationalists , Tim Cooper5: Separatists and Baptists , Michael A. G. Haykin6: Early Quakerism and its Origins , Ariel Hessayon7: The Dutch Republic: English and Scottish Dissenters in Dutch Exile, 1575-1688 , Cory Cotter8: Scotland , R. Scott Spurlock9: Ireland , Crawford Gribben10: Wales, 1587-1689 , Lloyd Bowen11: Dissent in New England , Francis J. Bremer12: Colonial Quakerism , Andrew R. Murphy and Adrian Chastain Weimer13: Dissent in the Parishes , W. J. Sheils14: Dissent and the State: Persecution and Toleration , Jacqueline Rose15: The Empowerment of Dissent: The Puritan Revolution , Bernard Capp16: The Print Culture of Nonconformity: From Martin Marprelate to Reliquiae Baxterianae , N. H. Keeble17: The Bible and Theology , John Coffey18: Sacraments and Worship , Susan Hardman Moore19: Sermons and Preaching , David J. Appleby20: Women and Gender , Rachel Adock21: Being a Dissenter: Lay Experience in the Gathered Churches , Michael Davies, Anne Dunan-Page, and Joel HalcombAuthor InformationEdited by John Coffey, Professor of Early Modern History, University of LeicesterJohn Coffey is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leicester. He has published widely on the history of Protestantism in Britain and America, and is the author of Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England, 1558-1689 (2000), and Exodus and Liberation: Deliverance Politics from John Calvin to Martin Luther King Jr. (2014). He co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism (2008), and has worked with N.H. Keeble, Tom Charlton, and Tom Cooper on a scholarly edition of Richard Baxter's Reliquiae Baxterianae, 5 vols (Oxford, 2020).Contributors:Rachel Adcock Lecturer in English, Keele UniversityDavid J. Appleby, Lecturer in Early Modern British History, University of Nottingham.Lloyd Bowen, Reader in Early Modern History, Cardiff UniversityFrancis J. Bremer, Professor Emeritus of History, Millersville University of PennsylvaniaBernard Capp, Emeritus Professor of History, University of WarwickJohn Coffey, Professor of Early Modern History, University of LeicesterTim Cooper, Associate Professor of Church Histor, University of OtagoCory Cotter, Independent Researcher.Michael Davies, Senior Lecturer in English, University of LiverpoolAnne Dunan-Page, Professor of Early Modern British Studies, Aix-Marseille Université,Crawford Gribben, Professor of Early Modern British History, Queen's University BelfastPolly Ha, Reader in Early Modern History, University of East AngliaJoel Halcomb, Lecturer in Early Modern History, University of East AngliaSusan Hardman Moore, Professor of Early Modern Religion, University of Edinburgh.Michael A. G. Haykin, Chair and Professor of Church History, The Southern Baptist Theological SeminaryDr Ariel Hessayon, Reader in the Department of History, Goldsmiths, University of London.N H Keeble, Professor Emeritus of English Studies, University of Stirling, Scotland.Andrew Murphy, Professor of Political Science, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityJacqueline Rose, Senior Lecturer in History, University of St AndrewsBill Sheils, Professor Emeritus of History, University of York.George Southcombe, Director of Sarah Lawrence Programme, Wadham College, Oxford.R. Scott Spurlock, Senior Lecturer in Scottish Religious Cultures, University of GlasgowElliot Vernon, Barrister of Lincoln's InnAdrian Chastain Weimer, Associate Professor of History, Providence College