Marilynne Robinson 
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SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
8/3/2022
Breaking Up With Marilynne Robinson Over the Dark Side of Puritanism
by Peter Laarman
A minister and activist argues that the novelist and essayist's defense of the New England Puritans as prototypical human rights heroes ignores the very clear limits that historians have identified for Puritanism's conceptions of social belonging.
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