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The 35 pages that link to Puritanism, each with the reason it gives.

• English Civil WarRelated: Puritan demands shaped parliamentary opposition to the king’s religious policies.

• AnglicanismCompared with: Puritan disputes exposed tensions over ceremony, authority, and reform within Anglican history.

• CalvinismRelated: Many Puritans drew on Calvinist theology in shaping preaching, piety, and church reform.

• CongregationalismNarrower topic: Congregationalism developed within Puritan disputes over how churches should be organized.

• Massachusetts Bay ColonyNarrower topic: Puritan religious commitments supplied the colony's founding rationale.

• Elizabethan theatreCompared with: Puritan opposition to stage plays challenged the theatre’s moral and civic legitimacy.

• Victorian moralityNarrower topic: Earlier Protestant traditions supplied enduring language of restraint and virtue.

• Elizabethan Religious SettlementCompared with: Puritans opposed ceremonies and structures they considered insufficiently reformed.

• Book of Common PrayerCompared with: Puritans opposed features of Prayer Book worship they considered insufficiently reformed.

• Nathaniel HawthorneRelated: Puritan beliefs and social discipline supply the historical world of many Hawthorne stories.

• Salem witch trialsNarrower topic: Puritan beliefs framed witchcraft as a real threat to a godly community.

• The Handmaid’s TaleRelated: Gilead’s biblical language and moral discipline evoke a selectively imagined Puritan past.

• The Scarlet LetterNarrower topic: The novel’s community judges Hester through a rigid Puritan moral order.

• John BunyanNarrower topic: Its emphasis on scripture, conversion, and godly conduct shaped Bunyan’s preaching and allegories.

• Restoration literatureCompared with: Puritan moral and religious commitments often opposed the theatrical culture revived after 1660.

• The CrucibleRelated: Puritan religious discipline informs Salem’s laws, social expectations, and ideas of sin.

• The Pilgrim’s ProgressNarrower topic: Bunyan’s theology and moral priorities belong to the English Puritan world.

• Cotton MatherNarrower topic: Mather’s ministry and writing were grounded in New England Puritan theology.

• Geneva BibleRelated: Puritans favored the Geneva Bible’s Reformed notes and accessible presentation.

• John WinthropNarrower topic: Puritan convictions motivated Winthrop and many settlers who joined the colony.

• William LaudCompared with: Puritan objections to ceremony and episcopal authority directly opposed Laud’s religious program.

• Anne HutchinsonNarrower topic: Its strict religious authority framed the dispute Hutchinson brought into public life.

• Great AwakeningRelated: New England's Puritan inheritance supplied institutions and expectations that revivalists both used and challenged.

• Increase MatherNarrower topic: Mather’s theology and public life grew from New England Puritan commitments.

• Reformed ChristianityBroader topic: Reformed theology informed Puritan religious ideals and their influence in England and New England.

• GravestoneRelated: Puritan beliefs shaped the imagery and wording on many early New England gravestones.

• First Great AwakeningNarrower topic: New England revivalists inherited Puritan concerns about conversion, sin, and communal faith.

• Anne BradstreetNarrower topic: Its theology informed Bradstreet’s reflections on providence, sin, and salvation.

• Mary RowlandsonNarrower topic: Puritan belief supplies the narrative’s central language of sin, trial, and providence.

• Matthew HopkinsRelated: Puritan religious culture shaped the fears and moral language surrounding witchcraft in Hopkins’s era.

• Colony of Rhode Island and Providence PlantationsCompared with: Puritan authorities in neighboring colonies imposed religious conformity that Rhode Island resisted.

• History of ProtestantismBroader topic: Puritan migration and political influence helped shape Protestant life in colonial North America.

• Low churchRelated: Puritan criticism of ceremonies and episcopal authority anticipated some low-church priorities.

• Mainline ProtestantRelated: Puritan migration and congregational traditions helped shape early American Protestant institutions.

• Samuel Rawson GardinerRelated: Religious disputes help explain the political tensions Gardiner chronicles.