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1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 30 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Scott R. Pollak. |
| Summary |
Four hundred years ago, a group of men and women who had challenged the religious establishment of early seventeenth-century England and struggled as refugees in the Netherlands risked everything to build a new community in America. The story of those who journeyed across the Atlantic on the Mayflower has been retold many times, but the faith and religious practices of these settlers has frequently been neglected or misunderstood. In One Small Candle, Francis J. Bremer focuses on the role of religion in the settlement of the Plymouth Colony and how those values influenced political, intellectual, and cultural aspects of New England life a hundred and fifty years before the American Revolution. He traces the Puritans' persecution in early seventeenth-century England for challenging the established national church and the difficulties they faced as refugees in the Netherlands in the 1610s. As they planted a colony in America, this group of puritan congregationalists was driven by the belief that ordinary men and women should play the deciding role in governing church affairs. Their rejection of individual greed and focus on community, Bremer argues, defined the culture of English colonization in early North America. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)
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Massachusetts -- History -- New Plymouth, 1620-1691.
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Brewster, William, 1566 or 1567-1644.
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Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) -- Biography.
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Massachusetts -- History -- New Plymouth, 1620-1691 -- Biography.
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Pollak, Scott R..
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781666111477 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1666111473 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13921719 |
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