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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Changes in Puritanism in the New World Research Compiled for
, Inc. by K. Von Huben 10/2010 Please Introduction Puritanism is the name given to the movement to reform
the church in England; the story of the Puritans efforts and their emigration to North America is well known. This paper considers how Puritanism changed once the reformers arrived in
the New World. Discussion Some quick background: The English Puritans were dismayed by the religious compromises made during Elizabeth Is time, and extremely critical of them (Bowden, 2010). They believed
in a direct and personal religion, strict morality, and simple services of worship; it was the conduct of the services they most wanted to change (Bowden, 2010). When James I
took the throne, the Puritans asked him to make reforms; James "convened a meeting of bishops and Puritans at Hampton Court in 1604," known as the "Hampton Court conference" (Streich,
2009). The conference could hardly have gone worse for the Puritan cause: it resulted in all Puritan proposals being dismissed (Streich, 2009). The hostility engendered led to the decision on
the part of many of the Puritans to leave the country; they felt it was impossible to remain within a society which tolerated the corruption they saw in the church.
What the Puritans stood for, then, would seem to be a simple religion that emphasized ones personal relationship with God, coupled with a strict moral code and worship that did
away with the kind of "trappings" found in Catholic services, for example. One would imagine that a society founded by the Puritans would place an emphasis on service to others,
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