Religion and Governance in England's Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601-1698.

Religion and Governance in England's Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601-1698 -- Religion and Governance in England's Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601-1698 -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 'A Just Government'-Empire, Religion, Chaplains and the Corporation -- Defining Governance -- Emerging Empire: Internal Imperial and Iberian Inspiration -- Corporate Formation and the Origins of Corporate Religious Governance -- A History of Corporate Religious Governance -- Religion in England -- The Company Chaplain -- Conclusion -- 2 The Virginia Company and the Foundations of Religious Governance in English Commercial Expansion -- Protestant Evangelisms in Opposition to Catholicism -- Population -- Presence of an Ecclesiastical Structure -- Evangelism and Education -- Enforcement -- Perceptions of Local Religious Practice -- Religious Governance and Downfall of the Virginia Company -- Conclusion -- 3 The Plymouth Company and Massachusetts Bay Company (1622-1639): Establishing Theocratic Corporate Governance -- The Plymouth Company and the Foundations of Theocratic Governance -- Chartering and Charter Rights -- Massachusetts Bay Company as Trading Corporation -- The Corporate Congregation and Foundations of Theocratic Governance -- Policing Religious Behaviour: The Antinomian Controversy and Early Attempts to Curtail MBC's Theocratic Governance -- Conclusion -- 4 Apostasy and Debauchery (1601-1660): Behaviour, Passive Evangelism and the East India and Levant Company Chaplains -- Protestant Pluralism and the Foundations of Pastoral Governance -- Pastoral Governance and Preventing Apostasy -- Pastoral Governance and Structuring Diplomatic Interaction and Response to Iberian Presence -- Chaplains as Enforcers of Pastoral Governance and Corporate Evangelism -- Chaplains and Knowledge Exchange.

Pastoral Governance and Securing Commercial Success and Religious Behaviour -- Conclusion -- 5 The Massachusetts Bay Company and New England Company (1640-1684): Exportation, Revaluation and the Demise of Corporate Theocratic Governance -- Territory and the Expansion of Theocratic Governance -- Restoration and Reaction to Theocratic Governance in Massachusetts -- King Philip's War and the End to Theocratic Governance -- Conclusion -- 6 The East India Company (1661-1698): Territorial Acquisition and the 'Amsterdam of Liberty' -- Ecumenical Governance, Josiah Child and the Dutch Model -- Ecumenical Governance in Opposition to Mughal Religious Government -- Ecumenical Governance in Opposition to Iberian Religious Government -- Ecumenical Governance and Religious-Commercial Patronage and Religious Migration -- Ecumenical Governance and Regulating Behaviour of English Personnel -- Ecumenical Governance and Passive Evangelism -- Ecumenical Governance and Local Political Engagement -- Ecumenical Government and the Exportation of English Customs and Prejudices -- Conclusion -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

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