Heaven’s Wrath : The Protestant Reformation and the Dutch West India Company in the Atlantic World / / D.L. Noorlander

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910480019803321
• Autore: Noorlander D. L.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• ISBN: 1-5017-4033-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 pages)
• Collana: New Netherland Institute studies
• Disciplina: 284.249209032
• Soggetti: Reformed Church; Netherlandish colonies; Dutch; Capitalism - Religious aspects - Protestant churches; Calvinism; HISTORY - Europe - Western; Dutch - Africa, West - History; Reformed Church - America - History; Calvinism - Netherlands - History; Reformed Church - Netherlands - History; History; Electronic books.; Netherlands; America; West Africa; Netherlands Colonies America
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Published in association with the New Netherland Institute."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : the role of Reformed Christianity in the commercial and colonial endeavors of the Dutch Golden Age -- The Dutch Reformed Church in the Netherlands and the international concerns of the Calvinist ministry -- The directors of the Dutch West India Company and the religious activity of Dutch merchants in Europe -- Baptized by ; water and fire : the religious ideology and rites of the company's early fleets and conquests -- The challenges and shortcomings of public worship in the company's first forts and colonial settlements -- Calvinist reformers in Dutch Brazil and the impacts of reform on Portuguese Catholics before the revolt -- Unrighteous rulers, sinful settlers, and religious dissenters in New Netherland and the Dutch Caribbean -- The harvest was great, the laborers few : Dutch mission theology and outreach among Africans and Indians -- Tensions and conflicts over religious resources and power in the West India Company's later years -- Conclusion : the West India Company, the East India Company, and the Catholic powers in comparative perspective.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Explores the cultural and other impacts of Calvinist ideology and Calvinist religion in the early Dutch Atlantic world"--