In addition, the book reassesses the role of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where Venning was educated, in shaping puritan thought, discusses Max Weber's ideas about puritanism and capitalism especially ...

"And it is those chimeras which the Society is fighting in its campaign for the 'New Puritanism.' Sit in my office day in and day out, and hear the moral tragedies recited, and you will realize ...

Thus circumstances combined to develop Puritanism. Now the essential characteristic of Puritanism is the vivid consciousness of an immediate personal relation between the individual and his Maker, ...

The word Puritan comes from ‘purity’ or ‘purify’. These were extreme Protestants who wanted to purify the Church of England by returning to the simple and uncomplicated worship and way of ...

From Marx to Starmer, socialists have a long history of being killjoys There is something grotesque about the PM snaffling freebies while he inflicts misery on the rest of us It should not be up to ...

In order to retain their public masculine identity, men altered the original mission of Puritanism, infusing gender into the construction of religious ideas about public service, the creation of the ...

It reflects the zeitgeist, our new Puritanism. I can’t think of a better term, though as readers will know it properly ...

She is one of 100 French women who wrote an open letter, warning about a new "puritanism" sparked by recent sexual harassment scandals. It deplores a wave of "denunciations", following rape ...

"Puritanism" was running rampant "like in the good old days of witchcraft", they argued, stating that the freedom of men to pester was "essential to sexual freedom". Around the world - notably the ...