| Description |
1 online resource (334 pages) |
| Contents |
The polemics of possession : Spain on America, Circa 1550 / Rolena Adorno -- Cruelty and religious justifications for conquest in the mid-seventeenth-century English Atlantic / Carla Gardina Pestana -- Religion and national distinction in the early modern Atlantic / Barbara Fuchs -- The commonwealth of the Word : New England, Old England, and the praying Indians / Linda Gregerson -- Catholic saints in Spain's Atlantic empire / Cornelius Conover -- A wondering Jesuit in Europe and America : Father Chaumonot finds a home / Allan Greer -- From London to Nonantum : mission literature in the transatlantic English world / Kristina Bross -- Dreams clash : the war over authorized interpretation in seventeenth-century French missions / Dominique Deslandres -- "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 -- Reconfiguring martyrdom in the colonial context : Marie de l'Incarnation / Katherine Ibbett -- Book of suffering, suffering book : the Mennonite Martyrs' Mirror and the translation of martyrdom in colonial America / Patrick Erben -- Iconoclasm without icons? The destruction of sacred objects in colonial North America / Susan Juster -- Spenser and the end of the British empire / Paul Stevens |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
Christian life -- History.
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HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775)
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Christian life
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| SUBJECT |
America -- Church history
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| Subject |
America
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| Genre/Form |
Church history
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gregerson, Linda
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Juster, Susan
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| LC no. |
2010028882 |
| ISBN |
9780812208825 |
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081220882X |
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0812222601 |
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9780812222609 |
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9780812242898 |
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0812242890 |
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