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3. 2. 1. The Crucible Background Research: Puritanism. Anthony Hall Abri Linell Destiny Isiguzo Vanessa Lopez Briana Lieberman Period 1 Group 4. soapsTONE. Speaker- Group 4 Occasion- Class assignment from instructor Audience- Students
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The Crucible Background Research: Puritanism Anthony Hall Abri Linell Destiny Isiguzo Vanessa Lopez Briana Lieberman Period 1 Group 4
soapsTONE • Speaker- Group 4 • Occasion- Class assignment from instructor • Audience- Students • Purpose- To inform about Puritanism and elaborate on religious practices and beliefs • Subject- Puritanism • Tone- Informative
What is Puritanism? • Puritanism is the set of religious beliefs and practices retroactively to Puritans by modern scholars. • It was originally of abuse toward people excessively narrow-mindedly or hypocritically religious. • But is now referring to the fervent religious “godly” fraction of the English nation • Dissatisfied with England’s imperfectly reformed status quo between 1560’s and 1640’s. • American Puritanism is now interpreted as the nineteenth-century ministers.
Important people • John O’Sullivan advocates the annexation of Texas, declaring that ‘manifest destiny to overspread free development of our yearly multiplying millions”. • Mid-nineteenth century, Nathaniel Hawthorne brought widespread attention to America’s Puritan past by setting many of his works in seventeenth-century New England. • His works: The House of the Seven Gables (1851) The Scarlett Letter (1850) • Ralph Waldo Emerson was train at Harvard to become an Unitarian minister • Henry David Thoreau also trained at Harvard for both inherited the sins of the fathers from the 17th century.
Daily Life • Boys rode horses while girls sewed and read the bible • Women did not participate in town meetings and were excluded from decision making in the church. • Children often were sent to stay with other families for training, discipline, and etc. • Puritan parents were discouraged from showing affection so the children would be ready to obey God’s laws.
Education • Education was always religious; they needed to read the Bible. • Children was also to read so they don’t have to be barbarians and understand the laws of the colony. • 50 families had to have teachers and citizens of the town had to pay the teacher’s salary.
Against the excesses of puritanism • For any man to take upon him, the office of public preaching, or ministering you were sent to execute the same. • The judge lawfully called and sent, which be chosen and called to this work by men. • Christian men’s profession, but rather be certain sure witness and effectual signs of grace, and God.
The rise of puritanism • In 1588 English Reformers returned from exile on the European Continent. • Many of them were deeply influenced by Calvin’s and desired to be enacted in England • Reformers preferred to call themselves “the Godly.”
The new world • Shedding light on the lives both of great dissenters and the leaders who contended against them. • Confessions of religious experience by the “diabolical” possession of a young woman and testimony of Native Americans accept Christianity.
