The finger of God: religious conceptions of the new world -- Whirligig spirits: English attitudes toward enthusiasm, 1550-1660 --Separatists and the new world: Plymouth's Pilgrims -- Anne Hutchinson and the naked Christ -- New England enthusiasts and the English civil war -- Quakers of the first generation: the martyrs -- Quakers from William Penn to John Woolman -- Continental strains: from Plockhoy to the Benezets -- The great awakening as enthusiasm -- The great
awakening as subversion and conspiracy -- Enthusiasm and the cause of mankind.