University Men in New England 1620-1660: A Demographic Analysis

Stout, Harry S.

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“…What, then, were the religious affiliations of the most highly educated colonists? A majority of the "university men" in 17th-century New England, and other colonies no doubt, came from England, where most had attended Oxford and Cambridge universities (Stout 1974). Both schools were affiliated with the Church of England and only Anglican communicants were allowed to matriculate.…”

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“…Both schools were affiliated with the Church of England and only Anglican communicants were allowed to matriculate. Another one-third of New England scholars had graduated from Harvard, which was founded by Congregationalists in 1636 (Stout 1974). Thus, all indications are that very early on, Anglicans and Congregationalists were disproportionately represented among the colonies' educational elites.…”

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The Origins of Religious Stratification in Colonial America

Pyle¹,

Davidson

2003

Scientific Study of Religion

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Religious stratification occurs when religion is institutionalized in the laws and/or customs of society as a criterion for the allocation of social positions and their attendant rewards. The result is a relatively stable ranking of religious groups in terms of their access to power, privilege, and prestige. In this article, we examine the social processes that contributed to the emergence of religious stratification in colonial America. Following Weber (1946), Lenski (1966), andNoel (1968), we use a "modified fair shares" theory that highlights the importance of three contributing influences: religious prejudice, competition, and differential power. After explaining the role played by each of these factors, we document the existence and enduring nature of religious stratification in the colonies. The evidence includes data on the religious establishments that arose in some colonies, other regulations governing access to scarce resources (such as the right to vote and hold public office), and differential access to economic and political power based on religious adherence. We conclude with observations about the need for further research on religious stratification in America.

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Section: Educational Elitesmentioning

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Section: Educational Elitesmentioning

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The Origins of Religious Stratification in Colonial America

Pyle¹,

Davidson

2003

Scientific Study of Religion

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The Morphology of Remigration: New England University Men and Their Return to England, 1640–1660

Stout¹

1976

J. Am. Stud.

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Richard Mather's promising pastoral career in England suddenly ended in 1634 with the wholesale suspensions inaugurated by Archbishop Laud. With no choice other than submission to the Church of England, Mather set sail for New England and, in so doing, joined a large scale folk migration that was to total over 15,000 people in the decade between 1630 and 1640. Encouraged by the early successes of the ‘ Great Migration ’ to New England, Mather took the birth of his son in 1639 as a sign and named him Increase ‘ on the Account of the great Increase of every sort, which God favoured the country with about the time of his nativity ’. A year after Increase's birth, Richard Mather's joy was once again chastened when there ensued a remigration to England such that, in Increase Mather's words, ‘ since the year 1640, more Persons have removed out of New England, than have gone thither ’. Leading in the removal from New England were nearly half of the highly trained ministers and university men who, in large measure, accounted for the uniqueness of the New England settlements.

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The Puritan Errand Re-Viewed

Delbanco

1984

J. Am. Stud.

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In the twenty years since Perry Miller's death there have been many new beginnings in the field he inspired. We have witnessed an impressive recovery of the Puritans' gift for metaphoric adventure, and a number of town and family studies have given us a fuller sense of Puritan life " from the bottom up." More recently, there have appeared some sensitive explorations of "lay piety," and of the expressive significance of artifacts, shaped space, dress, gravestones, and the like -"evidence as powerful as any sermon of the deeper values that existed in tension at the core of seventeenth-century New England culture." 1 Yet despite these advances and the many spirited revisions of Miller's own views on more traditional issues in intellectual history such as the precise nature of " non-separating Congregationalism," the validity of " declension " as a way of describing generational change, and the importance of Ramistic rationalism to Puritan thought, a suspicion is in the air that we may be stalled.

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University Men in New England 1620-1660: A Demographic Analysis

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The Origins of Religious Stratification in Colonial America

The Origins of Religious Stratification in Colonial America

The Morphology of Remigration: New England University Men and Their Return to England, 1640–1660

The Puritan Errand Re-Viewed

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