Unit 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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