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12 Απρ 2021 · Religion in Colonial America was dominated by Christianity although Judaism was practiced in small communities after 1654. Christian denominations included Anglicans, Baptists, Catholics, Congregationalists, German Pietists, Lutherans, Methodists, and Quakers among others.
7 Μαΐ 2024 · Rhode Island Colony was one of the 13 Colonies that declared independence from Great Britain. The colony started in 1636 and established Religious Freedom and the Separation of Church and State.
29 Οκτ 2009 · Roger Williams (1603‑1683) was a political and religious leader who settled the state of Rhode Island in 1636 and advocated for the separation of church and state in Colonial America.
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.
Williams was banished from the colony of Massachusetts for his dissident beliefs and in 1643 founded the religiously tolerant colony of Rhode Island. Rhode Island was “a shelter for persons distressed of conscience.”
we assert that Rhode Island colonists enjoyed much greater religious choice than their counterparts in Massachusetts. If we examine how much opportunity colonists had to follow whatever faith they wanted, we find that the differences be-tween the two colonies were far less marked than one would expect.
Roger Williams was an English colonist in New England, founder of the colony of Rhode Island and pioneer of religious liberty. The son of a merchant tailor, he was a protégé of the jurist Sir Edward Coke and was educated at Cambridge.
