puritanism

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By then, Deacon Chapin was dead, although Puritanism wasn’t yet.

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

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

From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2020

This type of wry evangelicalism was about as close to later English Puritanism as Italian eurocommunism would be to the clunking fist of Stalinism.

From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2018

Lovers of art were glad of the prospect of a broader culture than was possible in the shadow of Puritanism.

From Liberty In The Nineteenth Century by Holland, Frederic May