puritanism

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Puritanism shattered into multiple feuding sects and collapsed, and 18th century Enlightenment values of cosmopolitan secular government were ushered in.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2025

He might have vanished into Boston history were it not for the British, who spectacularly and catastrophically failed to understand what made Massachusetts citizens, forged by an independent version of Puritanism, tick.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 4, 2022

The Pilgrims who initially arrived in Plymouth practiced an extreme form of Puritanism that broke with the Church of England.

From Washington Post • Jun. 2, 2022

Nor were his counterparts in the New World, where Puritanism found space to thrive.

From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2020

Oliver Cromwell, the man of his age, and whose impartial biography is yet unwritten, was the soul of old Puritanism, and the warrior-apostle of religious toleration.

From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.