puritanism literary movement Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/puritanism-literary-movement Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:12:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Puritanism http://toursmaps.com/puritanism.html http://toursmaps.com/puritanism.html#respond Tue, 10 May 2016 08:28:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=203857 Puritanism was not a social, political, or economic movement. Rather Puritanism was an attempt by Protestants in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to reform and purify the Church of England based on their understanding and application of scripture. The sixteenth century was a time of great political and social change, and these changes dovetailed with religious life in England. Certainly, the movement had social, political, and economic repercussions and therefore cannot be seen solely as a matter of religion. Puritanism can be divided into two branches: (1) English Puritanism, which aimed to reform the Church of England, bringing it more

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