Puritanism

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  4/17/2023
  

  What is the Legacy of the English Civil War?

  Jonathan Healey's "The Blazing World" insists on seeing the ideological and theological roots of revolt as drivers of insurgency. 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  11/7/2022
  

  Who Still Needs the Carnivalesque?

  by Ed Simon

  Despite its repeated theorization, the political meaning of carnivals and the social inversions they temporarily enable remains hotly debated. 

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• SOURCE: News Talk
  9/25/2022
  

  British and Irish Historians Discuss Oliver Cromwell

  Patrick Geoghegan talks all things Cromwell with a panel of historians. 

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• 8/22/2022
  

  What Elizabeth Johnson’s Exoneration Teaches about the Salem Witch Hunt

  by Tony Fels

  The Massachusetts legislature recently exonerated Elizabeth Johnson, though her confession and conviction shows how "members of the Puritan communities of early Massachusetts could readily convince themselves that in some way or other, perhaps at a moment of weakness, they really had allowed Satan into their lives."

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• SOURCE: ABA Journal
  8/5/2022
  

  Civics Teacher and Students Help Win Exoneration for Last Convicted Witch in Massachusetts

  Carrie LaPierre of North Andover turned a project on the legislative process into an amendment to the state budget bill. Elizabeth Johnson's 1693 conviction was finally overturned. 

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• SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
  8/3/2022
  

  Breaking Up With Marilynne Robinson Over the Dark Side of Puritanism

  by Peter Laarman

  A minister and activist argues that the novelist and essayist's defense of the New England Puritans as prototypical human rights heroes ignores the very clear limits that historians have identified for Puritanism's conceptions of social belonging.