Protestant empire : religion and the making of the British Atlantic world / Carla Gardina Pestana.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pestana, Carla Gardina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--Church history.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Colonies--Africa--Religion.

Great Britain--Colonies--America--Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Beginning with the role religion played in the lives of believers in West Africa, eastern North America, and western Europe in about 1500, author Carla Gardina Pestana shows how the Protestant Reformation helped to fuel colonial expansion as bitter rivalries prompted a fierce competition for souls. -- from publisher description.

Contents:

Religion before English expansion

Reformation and the politicization of religious expansion

Exporting the religious tensions of the three kingdoms

Restoration settlement and the growth of diversity

Battling over religious identity in the late seventeenth century

Religious encounters and the making of a British Atlantic

Revivalism and the growth of evangelical Christianity

Revolutionary divisions, continuing bonds

Conclusion : the British Atlantic world in perspective.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-285) and index.

ISBN:

9786613212078

9781283212076

1283212072

9780812203493

0812203496

OCLC:

759158267