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

By: Pestana, Carla GardinaContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2009Description: viii, 302 p. : ill., mapsISBN: 9780812203493 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Great Britain -- Church history | Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa -- Religion | Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- ReligionGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 270.09171/241 LOC classification: BR757 | .P47 2009Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-285) and index.

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.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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