Basic Puritan Beliefs 
.... The beliefs and values of
Puritan society, as exhibited by men like Cotton
Mather, demonstrate the well-entrenched intolerance of the culture that perpetrated ....
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Writings of Puritan Americans
In the writings of
Puritan Americans Cotton
Mather, Anne Bradstreet, and Mary Rowlandson, we find detailed descriptions of experience which shine a light on ....
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Puritan American Writers
In the writings of
Puritan Americans Cotton
Mather, Anne Bradstreet, and Mary Rowlandson, we find detailed descriptions of experience which shine a light on ....
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Cotton Mather and Nathaniel Hawthorne
Cotton
Mather and Nathaniel Hawthorne: Two Opinions Regarding
Puritan Massachusetts To speculate on how Cotton
Mather might have reacted to "Young Goodman Brown ....
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The Organization of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
.... Just like
Mather, Brown is unable to acknowledge the possibility of physical or moral ambiguity. Just as the good
Puritan fathers fused temporal and spiritual ....
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Witch Hunts
.... After the Glover incident,
Mather preached numerous sermons on the subject of witchcraft that further incited the
Puritan's religious fervor to cleanse the ....
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Puritans
.... It is little wonder all three generations of
Mather's were
Puritan ministers, especially since Increase's father was determined his duty was to pass on ....
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Scarlet Letter
The
Puritan era in American society was one in which the individual and his or .... like Roger Chillingworth are very much akin to people like Cotton
Mather, men of ....
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Colonial America
.... Such thinking allowed for the justification of treating others uncharitably and unkindly who did not conform to the
Puritan ideal of goodness.
Mather and those ....
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Abortion
.... For example, in
Puritan Massachusetts, religious leaders like Cotton
Mather often couched their political and legal decision in religious or moral terms. ....
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Abortion Debate & Issue of Morality
.... For example, in
Puritan Massachusetts, religious leaders like Cotton
Mather often couched their political and legal decision in religious or moral terms. ....
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Salem Witchcraft 1692
.... underlying the Salem witch trials in New England during the late 1600s stems from various
Puritan and religious beliefs. Men like Cotton
Mather and other ....
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Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692
.... 1862; Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper P, 1950.
Mather, Increase. .... Sewall, Samuel. "A
Puritan's Days" [Excerpt, Sewall's Journal]. American Literature. Ed. ....
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The Salem Witch Trials
.... Sewall, Samuel. "A
Puritan's Days" [Excerpt, Sewall's Journal]. In American Literature. Ed. .... Life and Times of Cotton
Mather. New York: Welcome Rain, 2001. ....
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Religion in English Colonial Life in North America
.... colony, had been made the even more restrictive law of the
Puritan land. .... Cotton
Mather, who preached against the evils of witchcraft, warned against "resign[ing ....
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Salem Witch Trials
.... The desired goal of the
Puritan immigrants was to create a religious-based community with their "pure" ideals .... May 14: Increase
Mather returns from England. ....
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