Der Text - A Puritan Sunday - hab mal paar Fragen dazu?

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Der Text - A Puritan Sunday - hab mal eine frage dazu?
A Sabbath day in Puritan Massachusetts, while affording rest from physical work, called for spiritual efforts that in our time are expected only in religious orders. Let us say that it is the year 1650, a January Sabbath, and we are attending a meeting in one of the outlying villages of the Bay colony --- Ipswich, perhaps, or Hingham. The meeting house is unpainted, inside and out, and has a weathercock on top instead of a cross. The interior of the meeting house is unheated. Some of the congregation have brought foot stoves; others sit in wolf skin bags or have brought along a well-behaved dog to lie on their feet. The winter light that falls through the small windows is barely enough to illuminate our psalm books. The sermon goes on for at least three hours. Men of the congregation take notes -- a good way of staying attentive for there is a fine for falling asleep. The women and girls sit together on one side of the aisle, the men on the other, and the boys on the steps leading up to the podium where no nonsense is possible. Pews and seats are assigned by the church community in order of social rank.

The puritans preferred to call their places of worship meeting houses rather than churches due to the latter’s reference to orthodoxy. There was no kneeling; the people stood during prayer and psalm singing. When they stood up the pew seats were pushed back, like seats in a modern theater. When it was time to sit again, which may have been as much as two hours later, the banging down of seats was deafening in the bare room. There was no piano, no organ and probably no other musical instruments. Although a trumpet, drum, or flute would have been acceptable because those are instruments mentioned in the Bible.

At the end of the morning, those among the congregation who lived nearby went home for a meal prepared the day before. There were fines for preparing meals on Sunday: also for performing any other housework, traveling, shaving, running, kissing. Those who lived farther away retired to the noon house, a small, fire-warmed building near the meeting house, where they ate something they had brought with them. They would converse but only on religious topics since the day was to be spent on spiritual matters. After lunch everyone would return to the meeting house for an afternoon much like the morning.


WHAT WAS THE PURITAN ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH? ILLUSTRATE YOUR ANSWER WITH REFERENCE TO THE TEXT.

COMMENT ON THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF A PURITAN COMMUNITY?

[agrewe]

Der Text - A Puritan Sunday - hab mal eine frage dazu?

Ja? Und wo ist jetzt Deine Frage?

Diese hier sind doch wohl ziemlich klar von Deiner Lehrerin:

WHAT WAS THE PURITAN ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH? ILLUSTRATE YOUR ANSWER WITH REFERENCE TO THE TEXT.

COMMENT ON THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF A PURITAN COMMUNITY?

Deine Hausaufgaben solltest Du schon selber machen...

[Achim]

Der Text - A Puritan Sunday - hab mal eine frage dazu?

Ja? Und wo ist jetzt Deine Frage?

Da war sie doch schon! "Hab mal eine Frage dazu" + Fragezeichen = Frage!

Bye
Achim