Losing Yourself in Fantasy
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The Origins of American Protestantism
'I don't need a priest to tell me what to believe,' Puritan thought. 'My own religious truth, it's in the Bible', he said. Anti-establishment individualism was at heart and core of American Protestantism. Tocqueville found America exceptional for religiosity as well as commercial mindedness.
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