Southern Colonies: Religion In The Seventeenth Century

In the seventeenth century, American’s took religious very seriously. The American’s were not active communicants. One in fifteen people that was in the southern colonies was a member of the church. In the eighteenth century, a church became official. The religious belief and practice in the eighteenth century, it was not as demanding as in Puritan, New England and Quaker, Pennsylvania. The colonial Anglicans from England, was a lot more rational, formal and conservative with their modes of worship. The Anglicans did not make the members give a public, personal or emotional account of their conversion. They also did not expect the members to practice self-denial. The Southern colonies had an unusual economic advantage; it was the climate.