Empires of God
Religious Encounters in the Early Modern Atlantic
Religion 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 th…
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Weitere Autoren: Juster, Susan (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8122-0882-5
- EAN: 9780812208825
- Produktnummer: 18397252
- Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 344 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'081 KB
- Abbildungen: 6 illus.
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Edited by Linda Gregerson and Susan Juster
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