Download or read book The New England Soul written by Harry S. Stout and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry Stout's groundbreaking study of preaching in colonial New England changed the field when it first appeared in 1986. Here, twenty-five years later, is a reissue of Stout's book: a reconstruction of the full import of the colonial sermon as a multi-faceted institution that served both religious and political purposes and explained history and society to the New England Puritans for one and a half centuries.