Global Reformations Sourcebook
Convergence, Conversion, and Conflict in Early Modern Religious Encounters
Nicholas Terpstra, Nicholas Terpstra
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Global Reformations Sourcebook
Convergence, Conversion, and Conflict in Early Modern Religious Encounters
Nicholas Terpstra, Nicholas Terpstra
About This Book
This volume of primary sources brings together letters, memoirs, petitions, tracts, and stories related to religion and reform around the globe from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries.
The common subject of the sources is the Reformation, and these texts demonstrate the themes and impacts of religious reform in Europe and around the globe. Scholars once framed the Reformation as a sixteenth-century European dispute between Protestant and Catholic churches and states, but now look expansively at connections and entanglements between different confessions, faiths, time periods, and geographical areas. The Reformation coincided with Europeans' expanding reach across the globe as traders, settlers, and colonists, but the role that religion played in this drive has yet to be fully explored. These readings highlight these reformers' engagements with Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and indigenous spirituality, and the entanglement of Christian reform with colonialism, trade, enslavement, and racism.
Offering a sustained, comparative, and interdisciplinary exploration of religious transformations in the early modern world, this collection of primary sources is invaluable to both undergraduate and postgraduate students working on theology, the Reformation, and early modern society.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of figure
- Acknowledgements
- PART 1 How to use this sourcebook
- Reform, Reformation, and Global Reformations
- PART 2 Sources
- 1 Joining the Church: translating rituals of initiation
- 2 Purifying the community: purging the alien
- 3 Evaluating others: cross-cultural assessments
- 4 The politics of conversion - early and late 'Reformation'
- 5 Living together: co-existence, conversion, convergence
- 6 Ordering faith, ordering society
- 7 Performing the faith: the art of religious identity and difference
- 8 Exploiting faith: conversion, capitalism, colonialism
- 9 Going underground - negotiating difference
- 10 Living the traditions: the religious politics of daily life
- 11 Finding self and others
- Index