Week 3: The Colonies, the Revolution, and the New Nation:
Clashing Theologies
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Week 3 explores the religious world views
which prompted flights of settlers from warring factions in England and
other European countries to New England and the conflicts which arose between
them in the American colonies. A spokesperson for religious tolerance
and accommodation with the New England indigenous populations, Roger Williams
was ousted from Massachusetts Bay Colony by its Puritan leadership.
The Reverend Cotton Mather, third in the New England Mather dynasty, was
President of Harvard University, a strong Calvinist, and, like his father
before him, a specialist in witchcraft, serving as an advisor to the Salem
witch trial magistrates.
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