The Puritans Leaving Britain

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The paper discusses the creation of the group of people referred to as the Puritans and what led them to leave Britain for the New World. The paper goes into detail about the political, religious and economic factors behind their decision to leave their homes. It then discusses the Reformation in England and the reasons behind it.

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"For example, seventeenth century England certainly saw challenges to the sacred aura surrounding society, which began earlier when Henry VIII secularized many things besides the church's lands, wealth, and powers (Sommerville). If by secularization, one considers what it meant then, the separation of anything from its religious associations, then one must speak of a secularization of "space and time, language and art, play and work and power; of personal, social, and national identity, even of flags and military technology" (Sommerville). Thus, religion reasserted itself not as a new religious culture so much as a religious faith, a conscious reaction to the disenchantment of ordinary life (Sommerville)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Bremer, Francis J. (1995). The Puritan Experiment: New England Society from Bradford to Edwards. University Press of New England. Pp. 4.
• Brigden, Susan. (2002). New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603. Penguin Books. Pp.72.
• Context and Development. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/puritan/purhist.html
• Eby, Lloyd. (2004 June 01). The Greatest Puritan: A New Biography of Jonathan Edwards. World and I. Retrieved December 09 2005 from HighBeam Research Library Web site.
• Kizer, Kay. Puritans. http://www.nd.edu/~rbarger/www7/puritans.html

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