Puritanism was a political impulse. It aspired to a Christian commonwealth governed by an intolerant state and a purified Calvinist church.

The Calvinist church is most strongly represented in the west Highlands of Scotland. Members of a famously dour Presbyterian church have been urged by their official magazine to "lighten up".

Reform church ministers should refrain from divisive and shocking behaviour, he said. Antal Rogan, the local mayor and parliamentary leader of the ruling centre-right Fidesz party, condemned the ...