LEADER 05430nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910463225303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-0882-X 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812208825 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418263 035 $a(OCoLC)859160956 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748535 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001078257 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11615941 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001078257 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11047741 035 $a(PQKB)11154736 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442134 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26104 035 $a(DE-B1597)449615 035 $a(OCoLC)979744436 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812208825 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442134 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748535 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682490 035 $a(OCoLC)932312928 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418263 100 $a20121130d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aEmpires of God$b[electronic resource] $ereligious encounters in the early modern Atlantic /$fedited by Linda Gregerson and Susan Juster 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (345 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-51208-6 311 $a0-8122-2260-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction / $rJuster, Susan / Gregerson, Linda -- $tPart I. launching imperial projects -- $tChapter 1. The Polemics of Possession: Spain on America, Circa 1550 / $rAdorno, Rolena -- $tChapter 2. Cruelty and Religious Justifications for Conquest in the Mid-Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic / $rPestana, Carla Gardina -- $tChapter 3. Religion and National Distinction in the Early Modern Atlantic / $rFuchs, Barbara -- $tChapter 4. The Commonwealth of the Word: New England, Old England, and the Praying Indians / $rGregerson, Linda -- $tPart II. Colonial Accommodations -- $tChapter 5. Catholic Saints in Spain's Atlantic Empire / $rConover, Cornelius -- $tChapter 6. A Wandering Jesuit in Europe and America: Father Chaumonot Finds a Home / $rGreer, Allan -- $tChapter 7. From London to Nonantum: Mission Literature in the Transatlantic English World / $rBross, Kristina -- $tChapter 8. Dreams Clash: The War over Authorized Interpretation in Seventeenth-Century French Missions / $rDeslandres, Dominique -- $tChapter 9. "For Each and Every House to Wish for Peace": Christoph Saur's High German American Almanac and the French and Indian War in Pennsylvania / $rWiggin, Bethany -- $tPart III. Violent Encounters -- $tChapter 10. Reconfiguring Martyrdom in the Colonial Context: Marie de l'Incarnation / $rIbbett, Katherine -- $tChapter 11. Book of Suffering, Suffering Book: The Mennonite Martyrs' Mirror and the Translation of Martyrdom in Colonial America / $rErben, Patrick -- $tChapter 12. Iconoclasm Without Icons? The Destruction of Sacred Objects in Colonial North America / $rJuster, Susan -- $tFinal Reflections: Spenser and the End of the British Empire / $rStevens, Paul -- $tNotes -- $tList of Contributors -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aReligion and empire were inseparable forces in the early modern Atlantic world. Religious passions and conflicts drove much of the expansionist energy of post-Reformation Europe, providing both a rationale and a practical mode of organizing the dispersal and resettlement of hundreds of thousands of people from the Old World to the New World. Exhortations to conquer new peoples were the lingua franca of Western imperialism, and men like the mystically inclined Christopher Columbus were genuinely inspired to risk their lives and their fortunes to bring the gospel to the Americas. And in the thousands of religious refugees seeking asylum from the vicious wars of religion that tore the continent apart in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, these visionary explorers found a ready pool of migrants-English Puritans and Quakers, French Huguenots, German Moravians, Scots-Irish Presbyterians-equally willing to risk life and limb for a chance to worship God in their own way.Focusing on the formative period of European exploration, settlement, and conquest in the Americas, from roughly 1500 to 1760, Empires of God brings together historians and literary scholars of the English, French, and Spanish Americas around a common set of questions: How did religious communities and beliefs create empires, and how did imperial structures transform New World religions? How did Europeans and Native Americans make sense of each other's spiritual systems, and what acts of linguistic and cultural transition did this entail? What was the role of violence in New World religious encounters? Together, the essays collected here demonstrate the power of religious ideas and narratives to create kingdoms both imagined and real. 606 $aChristian life$xHistory 607 $aAmerica$xChurch history 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChristian life$xHistory. 676 $a277.306 701 $aGregerson$b Linda$0221363 701 $aJuster$b Susan$01046865 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463225303321 996 $aEmpires of God$92478599 997 $aUNINA