UID:
almahu_9948367889202882
Umfang:
1 online resource (272 pages) :
,
illustrations (black and white).
ISBN:
9780197510070 (ebook) :
Serie:
Oxford scholarship online
Inhalt:
One Small Candle tells how the religious values of the Pilgrims prompted their settlement of the Plymouth Colony and how those values influenced the political, intellectual, and cultural aspect of New England life a hundred and fifty years before the American Revolution. It begins in early seventeenth-century England with their persecution for challenging the established national church, and their struggles as refugees in the Netherlands in the 1610s. It then examines the challenges they faced in planting a colony in America, including relations with the Native population. The book emphasizes the religious dimension of the story, which has been neglected in most recent works. In particular it focuses on how this particular group of puritan Congregationalists was driven by the belief that ordinary men and women should play the determinative role in governing church affairs.
Anmerkung:
Also issued in print: 2020.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version : ISBN 9780197510049
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
Oxford scholarship online
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