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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781887803321

Autore

Pestana Carla Gardina

Titolo

Protestant empire [[electronic resource] ] : religion and the making of the British Atlantic world / / Carla Gardina Pestana

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2009

ISBN

1-283-21207-2

9786613212078

0-8122-0349-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Classificazione

15.50

11.55

Disciplina

270.09171/241

Soggetti

HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)

Great Britain Church history

Great Britain Colonies Africa Religion

Great Britain Colonies America Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.