Many cultures have the idea or lifestyle similar to a Puritan’s views; nevertheless making each culture have a similarity. Having a certain connection with god like the Puritans is basis of what Puritanism is about. It is required in the Puritan faith that you have a relationship with God and you recognize and regret that sins you have committed. There is a huge population in the world that has a christian/catholic mindset‚ they use the bible as ways to better themselves and the rules that God implements
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article‚ “Puritans and Sex” by Edmund S. Morgan‚ the author explains that contrary to popular belief‚ the Puritans openly acknowledged their natural human urge for sex and‚ while looking down upon sinful acts such as adultery and rape‚ regarded them only as “pardonable human weaknesses” (Morgan) that called only for prevention and very rarely for major punishment and furthermore found sex after marriage perfectly acceptable and even necessary for a functional society. The idea that Puritans were opposed
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Question: In what ways did ideas and values held by Puritans influence the political‚ economic‚ and social development of the New England colonies from 1620 through the 1690s? The Puritan community positively and negatively influenced the New England colonies. When they first settled in America‚ they faced countless hardships that seemed to only increase their sense of religiosity. However‚ the colonies would not have been successful without them. Puritan beliefs helped to both introduce and spread
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The Virginians were better off than the Puritans were‚ because they had tobacco for a cash crop‚ they had a longer growing season‚ and they could trade and sell to England easier than the Puritans could. The Virginians were also more loosely structured than the Puritans‚ and were allowed to be individual people instead of one large mass. Smith and Bradford’s ways of leading their colonies were similar‚ yet so very different. Smith’s main concern was to make money and
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October 3‚ 2011 Puritan literature‚ there are many ways to describe it‚ and many examples of it. “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”‚ “Huswifery”‚ and “On Being Brought from Africa to America” are a selection of the most famous pieces of this type of literature in various ranges of time periods. They each combine different elements like diction‚ imagery‚ personal beliefs and didactic approaches and more; including character of the author and the role of religion. All Puritan literature is somewhat
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Think about having to lie and say you see the devil or else you get hung. This is what it was like for some of the puritans. The puritans had positive and negative traits‚ one of the positive traits was‚ they were fearful. One of the negative traits was that they were strict. In this movie it’s taught to make the right choice. This is explained well in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible‚ and in Johnathon Edward’s Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. A few other readings explain well positive and negative
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Puritans were able to greatly influence the New England colonies from 1630 through the 1660’s economically‚ politically‚ and socially. Puritans were groups that were seeking a more pure form of Protestantism apart from the Anglican Church. They came to the New world in search of religious freedom and were a prominent group in the New England colonies. Though the Puritans could be seen as a less influential group then some of the others of the period‚ that would be a mistake as they were certainly
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The Puritans’ ideas and values influenced the political‚ economic‚ and social development of the New England colonies. They valued the importance of church and state bound as one. They also had that drive to work hard and be prosperous economically. But lastly‚ the Puritans had socially adopted the idea of the importance of God and living all for him. All of the ideas had influenced the development of the New England colonies The Puritans values the church and was the center of their town. The
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Puritans were often stereotyped as a strongly religious group that lacked humor and was very sexually repressed. Although they were strongly religious‚ they were still human beings. They knew sex was a human necessity and understood that fully. What they did was make vigorous strides to make sex before marriage illegal. In other words‚ they only wanted married couples to partake in sexual intercourse to honor the code of God. They came up with a number of laws to protect sexual misdemeanors such
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The puritan story was a story of many things; from the landing of the first group of puritans in New England‚ to the formation and trouble of the bay colony bible commonwealth‚ to the puritans versus Indians‚ ending with the New England family. This story wouldn’t be anything without the help of the one and only King Henry VIII. It was King’s‚ tie breaking with the Roman Catholic Church in the 1530’s that launch the reformation of the protestant church. The reformation of the church led to a group
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