What religion do the townspeople practice in "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne?

"" byis set in Salem,
Massachusetts, at about the time of the notorious Salem Witch Trials. What that means, of
course, is that the prevailing religion in this story is Puritanism. 

While
those who called themselves Puritans desired to live holier lives, closer to God in a community
where they were free to worship, certain problems ensued. First, they believed that they had to
live pure (sinless) lives because they had no way of knowing if they were among God's Elect
(chosen people). This, of course, was an impossible task, since humans sin. All of
them. 

Second, in this theistic society, sins were treated as crimes and
people who sinned were punished as criminals. This practice, rather than promoting an
environment of sinlessness, eventually caused people to call out (snitch on) other people's sins
in an attempt to divert attention from or hide their own sins, in addition to their desire to
rid their town of sin. The severity of the punishments for sin also drove people to hide their
sins. Symbolically, the forest was the place where people met the devil; it was a place where
their true selves were on display.

In this story, Goodman Brown goes to the
forest to test his faith, and he sees all the people--including his beloved wife,
Faith--cavorting there with the devil. After he returns home, whether this was a dream or real,
Goodman Brown is changed by this experience.

On the
Sabbath-day, when the congregation were singing a holy psalm, he could not listen, because an
anthem of sin rushed loudly upon his ear, and drowned all the blessed strain. When the minister
spoke from the pulpit, with power and fervid eloquence, and with his hand on the open Bible, of
the sacred truths of our religion, and of saint-like lives and triumphant deaths, and of future
bliss or misery unutterable, then did Goodman Brown turn pale, dreading lest the roof should
thunder down upon the gray blasphemer and his hearers.

The same people Goodman Brown saw dancing and partying with the devil in the forest are
church members who live as if they are pious and holy. It is just to much for the man and he
loses his faith; ultimately, this same kind of disillusionment is what causes Puritanism to fade
away.

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