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12 Απρ 2021 · The earliest colonies of New England were founded between 1620-1638 by separatists and Puritans seeking to establish religious communities in which they could worship freely. Both sects had been persecuted in England and, once they were firmly established in North America, then persecuted others.
14 Μαρ 2016 · The New England colonists—with the exception of Rhode Island—were predominantly Puritans, who, by and large, led strict religious lives. The clergy was highly educated and devoted to the study and teaching of both Scripture and the natural sciences.
9 Απρ 2021 · The colonies of New England were established by separatists (Plymouth Colony) and Puritans (Massachusetts Bay) but over half of the passengers on the Mayflower, which brought the separatists to Plymouth, were Anglicans who worshipped differently, observed Christmas (unlike the separatists and Puritans), and rejected the separatists’ strict ...
25 Ιουλ 2022 · Puritanism. Anglicans and Congregationalists became the two dominant forces in American religious life for much of the 17 th century, with nearly all the new colonies having one or the other as...
The New England Primer provides a clear example of the importance of religion to the early Puritan colonists. It also illustrates why the literacy rate in the New England colonies far exceeded that in other areas of settlement.
Colonial Religion. In British North America, the distinctive religious attachments of the thirteen independent colonies affected their colonization and development. These colonies varied in their approach, from Massachusetts’ initial establishment as a Puritan stronghold to Penn’s “holy experiment” in religious tolerance to Virginia’s ...
Religious Conscience in Colonial New England ROBERT T. MILLER Religious freedom, unlike so many other American liberties, is largely an indigenous product. It is not an inheritance transplanted from Europe by the founding fathers, but is rather the outcome of peculiarly American circumstances and problems and is the end result
