Empires of God: Religious Encounters in the Early Modern Atlantic

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2011

Empires of God

Religious Encounters in the Early Modern Atlantic

Edited by: Linda Gregerson and Susan Juster

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812208825

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About this book

Focusing on the formative period of European exploration, settlement, and conquest in the Americas, from roughly 1500 to 1760, Empires of God brings together literary scholars and historians of the English, French, and Spanish Americas to demonstrate the power of religious ideas and narratives to create kingdoms both imagined and real.

Author / Editor information

Linda Gregerson is Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic. Susan Juster is Professor of History at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Doomsayers: Anglo-American Prophecy in the Age of Revolution, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Reviews

"In its effort to unearth complexity as well as its intellectual and methodological diversity, Empires of God offers a sometimes bewildering, but frequently rewarding, entry into the interplay between its two central characters: "empire" and "religion." It provides scholars of Atlantic world religious history with a strong and theoretically driven survey of the field, particularly issues related to conquest, violence, evangelization, and the influence of the colonial world on discourses of religion in Europe."—Church History

"A fine collection with plenty of fascinating articles, particularly in the second and third sections which present us with various individual religious initiatives and experiences. . . . The variety of subjects discussed in Empires of God will eventually help to sharpen the minds of scholars working on one of the many connections of religion and (Atlantic) empire."—Sixteenth Century Journal

"This stimulating collection of essays from leading scholars of literature and history explores the complex relationships between Christianity and empire in the English, French, and Spanish Americas. . . . A major contribution of this work is thus to place religious thought at the heart of the analysis of colonialism."—Religious Studies Review

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Susan Juster and Linda Gregerson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. launching imperial projects
Chapter 1. The Polemics of Possession: Spain on America, Circa 1550 Rolena Adorno Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Chapter 2. Cruelty and Religious Justifications for Conquest in the Mid-Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic Carla Gardina Pestana Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Chapter 3. Religion and National Distinction in the Early Modern Atlantic Barbara Fuchs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
Chapter 4. The Commonwealth of the Word: New England, Old England, and the Praying Indians Linda Gregerson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
Part II. Colonial Accommodations
Chapter 5. Catholic Saints in Spain’s Atlantic Empire Cornelius Conover Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Chapter 6. A Wandering Jesuit in Europe and America: Father Chaumonot Finds a Home Allan Greer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
Chapter 7. From London to Nonantum: Mission Literature in the Transatlantic English World Kristina Bross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Chapter 8. Dreams Clash: The War over Authorized Interpretation in Seventeenth-Century French Missions Dominique Deslandres Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Chapter 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 Bethany Wiggin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
Part III. Violent Encounters
Chapter 10. Reconfiguring Martyrdom in the Colonial Context: Marie de l’Incarnation Katherine Ibbett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Chapter 11. Book of Suffering, Suffering Book: The Mennonite Martyrs’ Mirror and the Translation of Martyrdom in Colonial America Patrick Erben Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Chapter 12. Iconoclasm Without Icons? The Destruction of Sacred Objects in Colonial North America Susan Juster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
Final Reflections: Spenser and the End of the British Empire Paul Stevens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 344
Illustrations
- Other: 6 illus.
Keywords: American History; Religion; American Studies; Religious Studies

eBook

Published: February 11, 2013
ISBN: 9780812208825