religion in colonial america: trends, regulations, and beliefs
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Religion in Colonial America: Trends, Regulations, and Beliefs. Attempted to enforce strict religious observance. Not a culture of religious unity. Religious life was haphazard and irregular. As colonies settled , influence of clergy & churches grew. Slavery shaped by religion. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Religion in Colonial America: Trends, Regulations, and Beliefs
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Attempted to enforce strict religious observance
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Not a culture of religious unity
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Religious life was haphazard and irregular
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As colonies settled, influence of clergy & churches grew
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Slavery shaped by religion
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Degree of religious tolerance
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Meetinghouse: secular & religious functions
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New England PuritansGovernment theocratic: leaders’ authority from divine
guidance & civil authority used to enforce religious conformity
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Mid-Atlantic and Southern ColoniesQuakers, Catholics, Lutherans, Jews,
Baptists, AnglicansChurch of England recognized by law as the state church
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Great Awakening:movement challenged the clerical elite and colonial
establishment by focusing on the sinfulness of every individual, and on salvation through personal, emotional conversion
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Protestant rationalism:God endowed humans with reason so that they could tell the difference between right and wrong. Knowing the difference
meant that humans made free choices to sin or behave morally