Puritans were English Protestants who wished to reform and purify the Church of England of what they considered to be unacceptable remains of Roman Catholicism. In the 1620s leaders of the English state and church grew being heartless to Puritan demands. ... Three English diversions were banned in their New England colonies: drama, religious music and erotic poetry. ... By 1700, Boston became the second largest publishing center of the English Empire. ... They brought along their new ideas on religion and government. ...

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The followers of Puritan Age were against the English Reformation and advocated the sophisticated form of purity in religion, Church, Dogmas, worship, Doctrines and piety. ... He basically belonged to England but shifted to Britain Colonies later on. ... Cotton Mather was about the Newtonian science and its relation with religion. Thus, the work other than histories and religion was also related to the serious and intellectual discussions. ... Religion got exclusive importance and high status in the society and expressed through the literary works. ...

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