Protestant Empires
Globalizing the Reformations

Through its wide geographical and chronological scope, Protestant Empires advances a novel perspective on the nature and impact of the Protestant Reformations.

Ulinka Rublack (Edited by)

9781108841610, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 10 September 2020

350 pages
23.5 x 16 x 3 cm, 0.7 kg

'… a brilliant attempt to approach a global history of early modern Protestantism as inclusively and pluralistically as possible, which will certainly become the starting point for further research. [translated from German]' Mattias Pohlig, Historischen Zeitschrift

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.

Introduction Ulinka Rublack
1. Re-working Reformation in the early English Atlantic Carla Gardina Pestana
2. Puritanism in a local context: ministry, people, and church in 1630s Massachusetts David D. Hall
3. Learned reading in the Atlantic colonies: how humanist practices crossed the Atlantic Anthony Grafton
4. Portable lives: reformed artisans and refined materials in the refugee Atlantic Neil Kamil
5. Idolatry, markets, and confession: the global project of the de Bry family Suzanna Burghartz
6. 'Better the Turk than the Pope': Calvinist engagement with Islam in Southeast Asia Charles H. Parker
7. Inventing a Lutheran ritual: baptisms of Muslims and Africans in early modern Germany Renate Dürr
8. Conversion and its discontents on the southern colonial frontier: the Pietist encounter with non-Christians in colonial Georgia James Van Horn Melton
9. Globalizing the Protestant Reformation through millenarian practices Ulrike Gleixner
10. Global Protestant missions and the role of emotions Jacqueline Van Gent
11. The sacred world of Mary Prince Jon Sensbach
12. New perspectives on gender and sexuality in global Protestantism, 1500–1800 Merry Wiesner-Hanks.

Subject Areas: History of religion [HRAX], Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH], European history [HBJD]