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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.
25 Ιουλ 2022 · North America’s English colonies were founded as distinct Protestant societies, with their own charters and, with a few exceptions, an emphasis on religious uniformity.
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 ...
The English settlers of New England intended to make religion the focus of their settlement. These first immigrants were alienated English Puritans called separatists, who had already fied England for the Netherlands because of their inability to achieve further reformation in the Church of England at home.
From the perspective of the Puritan missionaries and ministers in Old England, however, the most important religious practice perfect was the public narration of their conversion. Interestingly, reported in 1674 that in Natick it was not uncommon for. wide variety of Christian practices into their normal lives without.
