Protestant Empires: Globalizing the Reformations

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Protestantism during the early modern period is still predominantly presented as a European story. Advancing a novel framework to understand the nature and impact of the Protestant Reformations, this volume brings together leading scholars to substantially integrate global Protestant experiences into accounts of the early modern world created by the Reformations, to compare Protestant ideas and practices with other world religions, to chart colonial politics and experiences, and to ask how resulting ideas and identities were negotiated by Europeans at the time. Through its wide geographical and chronological scope, Protestant Empires advances a new approach to understanding the Protestant Reformations. Showcasing selective model approaches on how to think anew, and pointing the way towards a multi-national and connected account of the Protestant Reformations, this volume demonstrates how global interactions and their effect on Europe have played a crucial role in the history of the 'long Reformation' in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Contents Figures Contributors Introduction 1 Reworking Reformation in the Early English Atlantic 2 Puritanism in a Local Context: Ministry, People, and Church in 1630s Massachusetts 3 Learned Reading in the Atlantic Colonies: How Humanist Practices Crossed the Atlantic 4 Portable Lives: Reformed Artisans and Refined Materials in the Refugee Atlantic 5 Idolatry, Markets, and Confession: The Global Project of the de Bry Family 6 “Better the Turk than the Pope”: Calvinist Engagement with Islam in Southeast Asia 7 Inventing a Lutheran Ritual: Baptisms of Muslims and Africans in Early Modern Germany 8 Conversion and Its Discontents on the Southern Colonial Frontier: The Pietist Encounter with Non-Christians in Colonial Georgia 9 Globalizing the Protestant Reformation through Millenarian Practices 10 Global Protestant Missions and the Role of Emotions 11 The Sacred World of Mary Prince 12 New Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality in Global Protestantism, 1500–1800 Index