Government submitting to the coercion of weaponized religion in the colony was as disastrous as faith submitting to government coercion in England. Puritanism shattered into multiple feuding sects ...

Puritanism enjoyed a revival in the 20 th century, particularly in the wake of the writings of historian Perry Miller (1905-1963), author of "The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century" (1954 ...