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| Acknowledgments | ix | |
| 1. | Introduction | 1 |
| 2. | Academic Histories of Self-Help | 11 |
| 3. | The Protestant Ethic and Puritan New England | 45 |
| The Weber Thesis and the Legacy of Puritanism | 46 | |
| What Brought the Puritans to New England | 52 | |
| New England Puritan Social History | 61 | |
| Puritan Collective Culture | 67 | |
| Boston and Economic Diversification | 73 | |
| Declension in New England | 76 | |
| Puritan Literature and the Weber Thesis | 87 | |
| A Brief History of the Histories of Puritan New England | 91 | |
| 4. | Benjamin Franklin, Cotton Mather, and Individualism | 105 |
| An Imposing Life | 106 | |
| Ben Franklin and Poor Richard | 109 | |
| Franklin and the Autobiography | 115 | |
| Franklin and the Puritan Ethos | 118 | |
| The Case of Cotton Mather: Puritanism, Self-Help, and Historical Influence | 124 | |
| Historiographical Discussion of Franklin and His Legacy | 132 | |
| 5. | Revivalism, Religious Experience, and the Birth of Mental Healing | 145 |
| Religious Innovation: The Second Great Awakening | 150 | |
| Interpreting Revivalism: Historians Seek Understanding | 160 | |
| American Romanticism: Nature, Harmony, and Healing the Self | 168 | |
| The Coming of Mesmerism and Mind-Cure | 176 | |
| Phineas Parkhurst Quimby | 181 | |
| Figures in the Emergence of New Thought | 193 | |
| Twentieth-Century Heirs to New Thought | 221 | |
| Bibliography | 227 | |
| Index | 243 |
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