Empires of God : Religious Encounters in the Early Modern Atlantic.

COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. LAUNCHING IMPERIAL PROJECTS -- Chapter 1. The Polemics of Possession: Spain on America, Circa 1550 -- Chapter 2. Cruelty and Religious Justifications for Conquest in the Mid-Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic -- Chapter 3. Religion and National Distinction in the Early Modern Atlantic -- Chapter 4. The Commonwealth of the Word: New England, Old England, and the Praying Indians -- PART II. COLONIAL ACCOMMODATIONS -- Chapter 5. Catholic Saints in Spain's Atlantic Empire -- Chapter 6. A Wandering Jesuit in Europe and America: Father Chaumonot Finds a Home -- Chapter 7. From London to Nonantum: Mission Literature in the Transatlantic English World -- Chapter 8. Dreams Clash: The War over Authorized Interpretation in Seventeenth-Century French Missions -- Chapter 9. "For Each and Every house to Wish for Peace": Christoph Saur's High German American Almanac and the French and Indian War in Pennsylvania -- PART III. VIOLENT ENCOUNTERS -- Chapter 10. Reconfiguring Martyrdom in the Colonial Context: marie de l'incarnation -- Chapter 11. Book of Suffering, Suffering Book: The Mennonite Martyrs' Mirror and the Translation of Martyrdom in Colonial America -- Chapter 12. Iconoclasm Without Icons? The Destruction of Sacred Objects in Colonial North America -- FINAL REFLECTIONS: Spenser and the End of the British Empire -- NOTES -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

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.

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