SALEM EPISODE 4: The pervasive power of Puritanism
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Puritanism and Witch Trials
Marian hihlighted that puritanism placed a strong emphasis on insiders and outsiders. This was a community that had been persecuted before, he says. Part of a good puritan's duty was to seek out any one threatening to undermine their holy mission and subdue them. So it comes out of this idea of binery, opposites. You're either with god or against him, am.
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