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One Small Candle - The Plymouth Puritans and the Beginning of English New England (Hardcover)
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One Small Candle - The Plymouth Puritans and the Beginning of English New England (Hardcover)
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Four hundred years ago, a group of men and women who had challenged
the religious establishment of early seventeenth-century England
and struggled as refugees in the Netherlands risked everything to
build a new community in America. The story of those who journeyed
across the Atlantic on the Mayflower has been retold many times,
but the faith and religious practices of these settlers has
frequently been neglected or misunderstood. In One Small Candle,
Francis J. Bremer focuses on the role of religion in the settlement
of the Plymouth Colony and how those values influenced political,
intellectual, and cultural aspects of New England life a hundred
and fifty years before the American Revolution. He traces the
Puritans' persecution in early seventeenth-century England for
challenging the established national church and the difficulties
they faced as refugees in the Netherlands in the 1610s. As they
planted a colony in America, this group of puritan
congregationalists was driven by the belief that ordinary men and
women should play the deciding role in governing church affairs.
Their commitment to lay empowerment and participatory democracy was
reflected in congregational church covenants and inspired the
earliest political forms of the region, including the Mayflower
Compact and local New England town meetings. Their rejection of
individual greed and focus on community, Bremer argues, defined the
culture of English colonization in early North America. A timely
narrative of the people who founded the Plymouth Colony, One Small
Candle casts new light on the role of religion in the shaping of
the United States.
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