Puritanism was a religious reform movement that arose within the Church of England in the late sixteenth century.
England was subjected to the severe rule of the Puritans whose religious spirit would admit no toleration. It started after the Civil War, while Charles I the King was beheaded, and he monarchy was abolished and a Commonwealth was created in which State and Church became one.
The puritans believed that God had already chosen who enter the gates of Heaven, and the rest were predestined to be hellbound; and even the newborns could have the original Sin and condemned to go to Hell.
They believed that the purest ones had to live rejecting conventional ideas and personal privacy.
Due to their strict ideals, many people were burned alive accused of witchcraft.
They moved in the New World and they were the founder members of American society.
