What effect has the conquest of Europeans had on Native American religion?
Discuss examples of the threefold response: 1) to keep up the practices of their traditional religions but add to them elements derived from Christianity; 2) form a variety of new religious practices and movements (cf. the ghost dance and peyotism); 3) convert to various denominational forms of Christianity. STUDY GUIDE FOR COLONIAL AMERICA Terms: Puritans, Anglicans, Book of Common Prayer, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Baptists, Quakers, Dutch Reformed, Mennonites, Lutherans, voluntarism, William Penn and Pennsylvania, Roger Williams and Rhode Island, institutional religion v. popular religion. Discuss the basic ideas of the Westminster Confession. [base your answer on the class discussion of TULIP] Why was the colonial American scene so religiously diverse, as opposed to the French and Spanish domains? 1. Economic advantage gained by policy of toleration (could recruit dissidents) 2. English Reformation & Glorious Revolution (Act of Toleration 1689) Explain why the laity was so
