The Pilgrims of the Mayflower

The Pilgrims of the Mayflower

Introduction

The Mayflower was a merchant ship that was used to transport goods to different trade routes across America. According to Walther (1957), the Mayflower symbolized determination, courage, vision, and spiritual adventure. The Mayflower is a symbol of courage due to the bravery of the people on the voyage, who encountered different dangerous situations. Furthermore, it symbolized determination due to the aim of the people on board and spiritual adventure because of the willingness of the pilgrims of the Mayflower to seek religious freedom. The pilgrims of the Mayflower were a group of individuals looking for religious freedom from the Church of England. Most of the passengers on the Mayflower were from a Separatist congregation in England and had lived in exile in Leiden (Fradin, 2006). The Separatists believed that the Protestant Reformation should have removed all remnants of the Old Catholic ritual from the Church of England and disputed with the English Puritans who wanted to remove Separatists from the Church of England and were not willing to comply with the teachings of the Church of England (Fradin, 2006). The Separatists occasionally prosecuted the Puritans, forcing them to flee to New England and Holland. The other passengers included strangers who were emigrants recruited by a trading company in London, Merchant Adventures, that wanted to leverage the commercial opportunity created by the voyage. The pilgrims became the most famous travelers on the Mayflower because of their impact on the beliefs and practices of the communities they interacted with. The most notable impact of the Mayflower pilgrims is in religion. The pilgrims made significant changes in religion where they settled. For instance, they led to the establishment of the Mayflower Compact. According to Morrison (2021), the Mayflower pilgrims were committed to advancing the Christian faith, which is why they designed the Mayflower Compact in God’s presence. Therefore, the pilgrims of the Mayflower created the foundation for religious liberty.

Subsequently, existing research on the Mayflower pilgrims has emphasized the journey to Plymouth and the Mayflower Compact. There is limited research on the role of the Mayflower pilgrims in religion and the acceptance of different religious beliefs. Therefore, it is essential to determine the role of the Mayflower pilgrims in creating religious liberty. Understanding the impact of the pilgrims on religion requires understanding the motivations that pushed them to board the Mayflower. It is also important to understand the challenges the pilgrims of the Mayflower experienced on their journey to determine whether the challenges impacted their religious beliefs and inclinations. Therefore, this research will focus on the pilgrims’ motivations, their impact on religion, the challenges they faced in their journey on the Mayflower, and the significance of the Mayflower Compact in religion.

Research Questions

What motivated the pilgrims of Mayflower to board the Mayflower?

What challenges did the pilgrims of Mayflower face in their journey on the Mayflower?

What is the impact of the Mayflower pilgrims on religion?

What was the significance of the Mayflower Compact in religion?

Data Sources

The research will use secondary data to respond to the research questions. The secondary data will be sourced from discussion papers, Christian website articles, journals, and books published online. The sources have been selected based on the relevance of the information they provide. A complete list of the ten sources that will be used in the research paper is provided in the references section.

References

Bradford, W. (2023). Mayflower Compact. Constitutional Rights Foundation. https://www.crf-usa.org/foundations-of-our-constitution/mayflower-compact.html

Ensign, A. (2020, November 18). The pilgrims and the Mayflower-history and facts. FamilySearch. https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/mayflower-pilgrims

Fradin, D. B. (2006). The Mayflower compact. Benchmark.

Heike, P. (2014). The myths that made America: An introduction to American studies. Transcript.

Hughes, A. (2022, June 6). Building America’s Political House on Solid Ground: Foundations of Faith, Plymouth Rock and the Mayflower compact – constituting America. Constituting America -. https://constitutingamerica.org/90day-aer-building-americas-political-house-on-solid-ground-foundations-of-faith-plymouth-rock-and-the-mayflower-compact-guest-essayist-adam-carrington/

Mcneese, T. (2021). The Arrival of the Mayflower: pilgrims sail to the New World. Chelsea House Infobase.

Morrison, J. (2021). The Mayflower Compact and Religious Liberty. The Mayflower Compact: Foundations of Liberty. https://doi.org/chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.heritage.org/sites/default/files/2021-12/MayflowerCompactCurriculumBooklet.pdf

Sailor, A. (2020). The mayflower compact and the foundations of religious liberty. The Heritage Foundation. https://www.heritage.org/religious-liberty/commentary/the-mayflower-compact-and-the-foundations-religious-liberty#:~:text=the%20American%20Founding.-,It%20did%20not%20divorce%20the%20Pilgrims%20from%20England%20or%20its,document%20in%20the%20American%20canon.

Sene, B. (2021). The Puritans in early American society and the premises of religious fundamentalism. Noble International Journal of Social Sciences Research, (63), 24–29. https://doi.org/10.51550/nijssr.63.24.29

Walther, D. (1957). The religious motivation of the “Mayflower” Pilgrims. Ministry Magazine. https://www.ministrymagazine.org/archive/1957/08/religious-motivation-of-the-mayflower-pilgrims

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This course will analyze the Christian and European expansion from the 16th to the 20th centuries and the interrelation between religion, economy, and politics in western and colonial societies. It is a research course for grad students who must develop a research paper of 20 pages.

It includes the early Catholic missionary expansion as well as Protestant and Pentecostal expansion in the 19th and 20th centuries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The course analyzes the contemporary history of Christianity in the Southern continents and its interplay with the globalization process from an eco-feminist perspective.

Its emphasis is on the transition of Christianity as a Western tradition to the broader category of world religions in the 19th and 20th centuries. Our focus will be on the cultural, social, and political activities that were developed within the Christian Churches. In this vein, we will also investigate the growing presence of “Christianities” in Southern regions, namely the leadership of some Protestant and Pentecostal Churches as well as Catholicism’s reforms under the Papacy of Francis.

The focus of this course is to understand the interplay between Colonialism, Christianity, and Globalization in the last five hundred and the impact of this dynamic in today’s world.

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Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
Develop critical analysis of the interplay between Christianity and Colonialism and their role in shaping globalization and explain it.

Identify the interplay between religion and socio-economic, political, and cultural dimensions of reality.