H. Ross Peron
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Junior Chimp
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« on: September 29, 2021, 05:36:40 AM » |
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The shift of New England WASPs, especially among elites, from Puritanism (later Congregationalism) to Episcopalianism is something I've wondered about as well. A key factor certainly has to be the decline of orthodox Calvinist and Trinitarian Congregationalism in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries in favour of Unitarianism especially in urban areas and educational institutions. I suspect the American upper class adopting a lot of the cultural practices of the European, especially English upper class in the Gilded Age played a role as well. I'm reading WASPs by Michael Beran and he points out how Episcopalian ritualism drew many converts among Boston Brahmins in the late 19th Century.
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