{"product_id":"empires-of-god-9780812222609","title":"Empires of God","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocusing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In its effort to unearth complexity as well as its intellectual and methodological diversity, \u003ci\u003eEmpires of God\u003c\/i\u003e offers a sometimes bewildering, but frequently rewarding, entry into the interplay between its two central characters: \"empire\" and \"religion.\" It provides scholars of Atlantic world religious history with a strong and theoretically driven survey of the field, particularly issues related to conquest, violence, evangelization, and the influence of the colonial world on discourses of religion in Europe.\" * \u003ci\u003eChurch History\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"This stimulating collection of essays from leading scholars of literature and history explores the complex relationships between Christianity and empire in the English, French, and Spanish Americas. . . . A major contribution of this work is thus to place religious thought at the heart of the analysis of colonialism.\" * \u003ci\u003eReligious Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"A fine collection with plenty of fascinating articles, particularly in the second and third sections which present us with various individual religious initiatives and experiences. . . . The variety of subjects discussed in \u003ci\u003eEmpires of God\u003c\/i\u003e will eventually help to sharpen the minds of scholars working on one of the many connections of religion and (Atlantic) empire.\" * \u003ci\u003eSixteenth Century Journal\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e —Susan Juster and Linda Gregerson\u003cbr\u003e PART I. LAUNCHING IMPERIAL PROJECTS\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. The Polemics of Possession: Spain on America, Circa 1550\u003cbr\u003e —Rolena Adorno\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Cruelty and Religious Justifications for Conquest in the Mid-Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic\u003cbr\u003e —Carla Gardina Pestana\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Religion and National Distinction in the Early Modern Atlantic\u003cbr\u003e —Barbara Fuchs\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. The Commonwealth of the Word: New England, Old England, and the Praying Indians\u003cbr\u003e —Linda Gregerson\u003cbr\u003e PART II. COLONIAL ACCOMMODATIONS\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Catholic Saints in Spain's Atlantic Empire\u003cbr\u003e —Cornelius Conover\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. A Wandering Jesuit in Europe and America: Father Chaumonot Finds a Home\u003cbr\u003e —Allan Greer\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. From London to Nonantum: Mission Literature in the Transatlantic English World\u003cbr\u003e —Kristina Bross\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Dreams Clash: The War over Authorized Interpretation in Seventeenth-Century French Missions\u003cbr\u003e —Dominique Deslandres\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. \"For Each and Every House to Wish for Peace\":\u003cbr\u003e Christoph Saur's High German American Almanac and the French and Indian War in Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003e —Bethany Wiggin\u003cbr\u003e PART III. VIOLENT ENCOUNTERS\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. Reconfiguring Martyrdom in the Colonial Context: Marie de l'Incarnation\u003cbr\u003e —Katherine Ibbett\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11. Book of Suffering, Suffering Book: The Mennonite Martyrs' Mirror and the Translation of Martyrdom in Colonial America\u003cbr\u003e —Patrick Erben\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12. Iconoclasm Without Icons? The Destruction of Sacred Objects in Colonial North America\u003cbr\u003e —Susan Juster\u003cbr\u003e Final Reflections: Spenser and the End of the British Empire\u003cbr\u003e —Paul Stevens\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405701095767,"sku":"9780812222609","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812222609.jpg?v=1730493328","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/empires-of-god-9780812222609","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}