Pilgrims and puritans
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How to become a Puritan
- You had to know the Bible inside and out
- You had to be an exemplary citizen
- You had to convince the congregation of having had a conversion experience. This could be a deeply spiritual trance, speaking in tongues, having a vision, etc.
Puritan Work Ethic
Building God’s country with your bare hands was hard work, and sitting in church all day not an option…
Work = equal to prayer
- Hard work, discipline, and frugality
- Sacrificing and working for the future
- Individuals were compelled to work hard
- “Success as a sign of salvation”
- Not working was seen as indulgence = sin!
- Often interpreted as a form of early capitalism
Salem Witch Trials, when, where, what caused it, what happenend?
- Perhaps the best-known episode from American colonial history
- Salem, Massachusetts in 1692
- Started when Betty Parris and Abigail Williams accused others of witchcraft
- Mass hysteria
- 19 people hanged and one man crushed to death by rocks
- Recent theory that the visions, speaking in tongues etc. were caused by food poisoning
- Inspired Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible (1953).
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Puritan influences on modern-day America
- Sense of a “divine mission”
- = Belief in America as “the Great Good Place” and Americans as God’s chosen people with a divine mission
- Fundamentalism: The Bible is a blueprint for life and should be taken literally
- Focus on self-reliance and self-discipline
- “[A] tight Puritanical intermingling of work, sex and morality in the American mind.”
- Moral vigilance, or the belief that one needs to act against what one considers to be ‘immoral behaviour’ in one’s neighbours.
- Belief that people who are not successful are themselves to blame
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