Background
Boyer, Paul Samuel was born on August 2, 1935 in Dayton, Ohio, United States. Son of Clarence William and Ethel Marie (French) Boyer.
( Millions of Americans take the Bible at its word and tu...)
Millions of Americans take the Bible at its word and turn to like-minded local ministers and TV preachers, periodicals and paperbacks for help in finding their place in God’s prophetic plan for mankind. And yet, influential as this phenomenon is in the worldview of so many, the belief in biblical prophecy remains a popular mystery, largely unstudied and little understood. When Time Shall Be No More offers for the first time an in-depth look at the subtle, pervasive ways in which prophecy belief shapes contemporary American thought and culture. Belief in prophecy dates back to antiquity, and there Paul Boyer begins, seeking out the origins of this particular brand of faith in early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic writings, then tracing its development over time. Against this broad historical overview, the effect of prophecy belief on the events and themes of recent decades emerges in clear and striking detail. Nuclear war, the Soviet Union, Israel and the Middle East, the destiny of the United States, the rise of a computerized global economic order―Boyer shows how impressive feats of exegesis have incorporated all of these in the popular imagination in terms of the Bible’s apocalyptic works. Reflecting finally on the tenacity of prophecy belief in our supposedly secular age, Boyer considers the direction such popular conviction might take―and the forms it might assume―in the post–Cold War era. The product of a four-year immersion in the literature and culture of prophecy belief, When Time Shall Be No More serves as a pathbreaking guide to this vast terra incognita of contemporary American popular thought―a thorough and thoroughly fascinating index to its sources, its implications, and its enduring appeal.
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( The first edition of Purity in Print documented book ce...)
The first edition of Purity in Print documented book censorship in America from the 1870s to the 1930s, embedding it within the larger social and cultural history of the time. In this second edition, Boyer adds two new chapters carrying his history forward to the beginning of the twenty-first century.
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(Great book on Salem Massachusetts and the witchcraft tria...)
Great book on Salem Massachusetts and the witchcraft trials and activies of the late 19th century. Includes chronology of events in the village, several maps of the town of Salem and geneaologies of the Porter and Putnam families of Salem. Softcover. 230 pages. Measures 5 1/2 by 8 inches. Interesting book.
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(The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured...)
The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion which had been growing for more than a generation before building toward the climactic witch trials. Salem Possessed explores the lives of the men and women who helped spin that web and who in the end found themselves entangled in it.
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( For over a century, dark visions of moral collapse and...)
For over a century, dark visions of moral collapse and social disintegration in American cities spurred an anxious middle class to search for ways to restore order. In this important book, Paul Boyer explores the links between the urban reforms of the Progressive era and the long efforts of prior generations to tame the cities. He integrates the ideologies of urban crusades with an examination of the careers and the mentalities of a group of vigorous activists, including Lyman Beecher; the pioneers of the tract societies and Sunday schools; Charles Loring Brace of the Children's Aid Society; Josephine Shaw Lowell of the Charity Organization movement; the father of American playgrounds, Joseph Lee; and the eloquent city planner Daniel Hudson Burnham. Boyer describes the early attempts of Jacksonian evangelicals to recreate in the city the social equivalent of the morally homogeneous village; he also discusses later strategies that tried to exert a moral influence on urban immigrant families by voluntarist effort, including, for instance, the Charity Organizations' "friendly visitors." By the 1890s there had developed two sharply divergent trends in thinking about urban planning and social control: the bleak assessment that led to coercive strategies and the hopeful evaluation that emphasized the importance of environmental betterment as a means of urban moral control.
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Boyer, Paul Samuel was born on August 2, 1935 in Dayton, Ohio, United States. Son of Clarence William and Ethel Marie (French) Boyer.
AB, Harvard University, 1960. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1961. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1966.
Assistant editor Notable American Women, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1964-1967. With University Massachusetts, Amherst, 1967-1980. Professor history University Wisconsin, Madison, 1980—2002, Merle Curti professor history, 1985—2002, professor emeritus, since 2002, senior member Institute for Research in the Humanities, 1989—2002.
Director Institute for Research in the Humanities, 1993—2001. Visiting professor history University of California at Los Angeles, 1987-1988. Henry Luce visiting professor American culture Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1988-1989.
James Pinckney Harrison visiting professor College of William and Mary, 2002-2003.
( Millions of Americans take the Bible at its word and tu...)
(The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured...)
( The first edition of Purity in Print documented book ce...)
( For over a century, dark visions of moral collapse and...)
(Great book on Salem Massachusetts and the witchcraft tria...)
(Gently used copy of Salem Possessed by Paul Boyer and Ste...)
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Member national advisory board The American Experience (television series), Public Broadcasting Service, Boston, since 1988. Member Wisconsin Humanities Council, 1999-2005, chairman, 2003-2005. Member American Academy Arts and Sciences, Society of America Historians (elected), American Antiquarian Society (elected), Organization American Historians (nominating communications 1991-1993, executive board 1995-1998).
Married Ann Chapman Talbot, September 15, 1962. Children: Alexander Talbot, Laura Kate.