Protestant empire [electronic resource] : religion and the making of the British Atlantic world / Carla Gardina Pestana.
Pestana, Carla Gardina.
2009
BR757 .P47 2009eb
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Title Protestant empire [electronic resource] : religion and the making of the British Atlantic world / Carla Gardina Pestana.
Author Pestana, Carla Gardina.
ISBN 9780812241501 (alk. paper)
0812241509 (alk. paper)
9780812203493 (e-book)
Publication Details Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2009.
Language English
Description viii, 302 p. : ill., maps.
Call Number BR757 .P47 2009eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 270.09171/241
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-285) and index.
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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.

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