Parade Of Faith Chapter 1 Summary

Joselit discussed several different religious groups in Chapter 1 of her book Parade of Faiths. She explains in depth both the cultural and religious aspects of these cultures as well as the immigration behaviors of these groups.

The first group Joselit covers are the Puritans. The Puritans were a sect of Protestantism. In the 1620’s Puritans left England and joined the Pilgrims in the New World. They were fleeing religious persecution, as tensions rose between the monarchy and parliament, the Puritans no longer felt secure in England. Led by John Winthrop they established the Massachusetts Bay colony. The colony had a large population surge from the 1630’s to the 1640’s, this time was known as the Great Migration. This movement was a large push migration that was caused by the rule of King Charles Ⅰ, who discriminated against Puritans forcing them to leave. However as time passed the movement from England to the New World during the 1660’s bgan to take on a new meaning and many of the puritans began showing signs of religious dissent as they “had other things on their minds than salvation. By then the arrival of a new kind of immigrants, the young

Many Puritans immigrated to the Americas because they were victims of religious discrimination and they were also very exclusionary in their religious