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Puritans  

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  • Puritanism was a broad-based religious movement in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England that achieved its one great institutional success when immigrants transplanted it to New England. The role of the movement in the religious and political history of Scotland, although not described in this entry, was substantial. [Source: Encyclopedia of Religion in America; Puritans]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-H00ZM37W-Z

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