One difference between the role of religion in Spanish and New England colonization is that in the Spanish colonies religion was used as a vehicle for evangelization, whereas in the New England colonies religion was used as a form of community centering and government.
What was the historical effect of religion on these two types of colonial settlements?
- The suppression of native religions.
- Religious intolerance.
- The association between government and religion.
The colonies of New England were formed, mainly, by Englishmen who were leaving the religious persecution they suffered in England. However, upon arriving on the American continent, they used religion to create a community with a centralized government, which had religion as its base and reinforced intolerance of different religions and communities.
In the Spanish colonies, religion was applied differently. As all Spaniards followed Catholicism, the establishment of colonies was not intended to escape religious persecution, but rather to exploit the continent's natural resources. However, the Spaniards saw the indigenous people as pagans and believed that this would harm their goals, for this reason, they used the religion as a way to evangelize and violently convert the natives to Catholicism.
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