One small candle : the Plymouth Puritans and the beginning of English New England / Francis J. Bremer.

• One Small Candle tells how the religious values of the Pilgrims prompted their settlement of the Plymouth Colony and how those values influenced the political, intellectual, and cultural aspect of New England life a hundred and fifty years before the American Revolution. It begins in early seventeenth-century England with their persecution for challenging the established national church, and their struggles as refugees in the Netherlands in the 1610s. It then examines the challenges they faced in planting a colony in America, including relations with the Native population. The book emphasizes the religious dimension of the story, which has been neglected in most recent works. In particular it focuses on how this particular group of puritan Congregationalists was driven by the belief that ordinary men and women should play the determinative role in governing church affairs. 

Ämnesord

Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)  (LCSH)

Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)  -- Biography. (LCSH)

Massachusetts  -- History -- New Plymouth, 1620-1691. (LCSH)

Massachusetts  -- History -- New Plymouth, 1620-1691 -- Biography. (LCSH)

Personnamn

Brewster, William, 1566 or 1567-1644.

Klassifikation

F68 (LCC)

974.402 (DDC)

Kqaad (kssb/8 (machine generated))