Reformed

The Reformed (Calvinist) tradition includes the Presbyterian, Congregational, Continental Reformed, and historically the New England Puritan churches. Documented episodes in this archive include the Salem witch trials of 1692, conducted under the doctrinal authority of the Puritan Congregational ministry of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

The continental witch panics of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, particularly the Geneva and Scottish cases, are within scope and will be added to the archive as the corresponding entries are written. The post-Reformation Reformed churches' involvement in colonial residential-school systems (the Presbyterian Church in Canada was responsible for a number of Indian Residential Schools) is similarly within scope.