Education, Religion, and Social Analysis of the Seventeenth Century

In the early 17th century, society was divided more or less into three groups. There is a group called a nobleman. These will guide and protect the country from the enemies during the war. They may be ranked highest. There is also a group called "clerk". These people will help people pray and people go to heaven. The last and lowest group are civilians who are food producers. As trade becomes more important, agricultural technology improves and social division of labor becomes more complicated.

In the 17th century, New England United colony formed a virtual Puritan Federation. They have different governments, but their hopes, their laws and past history are almost identical. The overall political and social system they established was based on the Puritan religion. Generally they insist that they love freedom, but individual Puritans are subject to strict laws governing all aspects of his life - even his family relations. A man can not kiss his wife publicly. After returning from the voyage for three years, Captain Kimbul kissed his wife and spent two hours from being puzzled and not timely.

Investigate New England's "mass religion" in the 17th century. Popular religions recognize that religious beliefs are "built into the structure of daily lives of men and women." Hall thinks that popular religion in New England includes clergy and non experts, strict "puritans", "stalled Christian", and theology and literacy, magic, clubs and rituals I will. The New England religion of the 17th century is a set of gently-surrounded symbols and patterns that give rituals of passing and life crisis, filling everyday events with supernatural phenomena. " A series of practices and circumstances are still open. "A diary of well-known businessmen from Boston and local official Samuel Sewell shows an open interpretation of religion by New Englanders of the 17th century.