What Role Did Puritans Play In Shaping American Culture
From the pre-Columbian times to the Civil War, America has changed greatly over time, especially from a cultural standpoint. Cosmology, the Puritans and the Great Awakening all played key roles in shaping the American religious culture from portraying the physical things around them as their God and the Big Bang Theory creating the universe to having one God in heaven creating it.
Cosmology was very popular in the pre-Columbian era. Jose de Acost was the one who came up with the theory that the settlers came from Asia across Beringia as early as 30,000 BCF, which may have been significant to cosmology’s origins (PP A Continent of Villages, Slide 12). In the beginning, the Pawnee believed in cosmology deeply. While the Pawnee’s believed in it, the Europeans …show more content…
The way the Pawnee used their land, resources, lodges, and social relations reflected their cosmology (PP A Continent of Villages, Slide 16).
If we fast forward about a century into the 16th century Puritanism was especially prominent in the New England colony. Puritans requested a more exhaustive transformation of the Church and tried to the more radical types of Protestantism that existed on the landmass, most vital of which was Calvinism. Puritans practiced a significant impact on both governmental issues and culture of the seventeenth century and the yearning of Puritans to force their vision on the Church was an essential figure the early phases of the Civil War, however such ideas applied less of an impact on British legislative issues before the century's over. Be that as it may, from multiple points of view Puritanism was likewise some portion of a more extensive social upheaval: different current scholars have associated the development of Puritanism to general chronicled developments, for example, capitalist independence, the transformation of conduct, and even the multiplication of the bible(Puritanism in the seventeenth century). Not too long after, The Great Awakening had begun,
Cosmology was very popular in the pre-Columbian era. Jose de Acost was the one who came up with the theory that the settlers came from Asia across Beringia as early as 30,000 BCF, which may have been significant to cosmology’s origins (PP A Continent of Villages, Slide 12). In the beginning, the Pawnee believed in cosmology deeply. While the Pawnee’s believed in it, the Europeans …show more content…
The way the Pawnee used their land, resources, lodges, and social relations reflected their cosmology (PP A Continent of Villages, Slide 16).
If we fast forward about a century into the 16th century Puritanism was especially prominent in the New England colony. Puritans requested a more exhaustive transformation of the Church and tried to the more radical types of Protestantism that existed on the landmass, most vital of which was Calvinism. Puritans practiced a significant impact on both governmental issues and culture of the seventeenth century and the yearning of Puritans to force their vision on the Church was an essential figure the early phases of the Civil War, however such ideas applied less of an impact on British legislative issues before the century's over. Be that as it may, from multiple points of view Puritanism was likewise some portion of a more extensive social upheaval: different current scholars have associated the development of Puritanism to general chronicled developments, for example, capitalist independence, the transformation of conduct, and even the multiplication of the bible(Puritanism in the seventeenth century). Not too long after, The Great Awakening had begun,