The Puritans in Early American Society and the Premises of Religious Fundamentalism

Birane Sene
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Birane Sene: American and Caribbean Studies Laboratory Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Senegal

Noble International Journal of Social Sciences Research, 2021, vol. 6, issue 3, 24-29

Abstract: Puritanism is historically a form of Protestantism, resulting from the movement of John Calvin affirmed in England, from the 1560s in reaction against official Anglicanism considered too close to idolatry. Puritans will leave England where they were persecuted and settle in the East of the United States later known as New England. This puritan community will serve as a model of a Protestant state based on religious principles. The rigor of the Calvinist doctrine determined social relations and guided the destiny of handpicked people for their moral rectitude. The principles that governed this Puritan society were already laying the foundations for a theocracy whose imprints are still visible in today’s American society. The puritans were pretending to be the light that should shine above the world and enlighten it with its values, and on this basis, they excluded any relationship of equality with others. Despite this theocratic ideal, the Protestant identity will gradually fade in favor of a secular state with a religious diversity and pluralism.

Keywords: America; Democracy; Extremism; Fundamentalism Puritanism; Theocracy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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