The Opening of the Protestant Mind traces a transformation in how English and colonial American Protestants described other religions during a crucial period of English colonization of North America. Mark Valeri shows how a wide range of Protestants began to see other religions not as entirely good or entirely bad, but as complex, and to evaluate them according to their commitment to religious liberty.
The Opening of the Protestant Mind traces a transformation in how English and colonial American Protestants described other religions during a crucial period of English colonization of North America. Mark Valeri shows how a wide range of Protestants began to see other religions not as entirely good or entirely bad, but as complex, and to evaluate them according to their commitment to religious liberty.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Mark Valeri is the Reverend Priscilla Wood Neaves Distinguished Professor of Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis. His book Heavenly Merchandize: How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America, received the 2011 Philip Schaff Prize from the American Society of Church History. He was a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow at the American Antiquarian Society and a Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow in the Culture of the Americas at the Huntington Library.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Chapter One: Disorder and Confessionalism Sources for Restoration-era Writers England's Confessional Ideology Confessional Descriptions of the World's Religions Chapter Two: Praying Indians Conversion within English Protestant Communities Missions to Algonquian Communities in New England Chapter Three: Revolution and Toleration Apologists for the Revolution of 1688 Religious Comparison and the Idea of Toleration Travel and Religious Encounters Chapter Four: Empire and Whig Moralism Imperial Agendas Whig Criteria for Religious Authenticity New Studies of the World's Religions Eighteenth-century Travelers Chapter Five: Power, Ceremony, and Roman Catholicism French Whigs and the Critique of Ceremonialism Descriptions of Ceremonial Power Images of the World's Religions Religious Diversity and Roman Catholicism Chapter Six: Indian Conversions The Great Awakening and Moral Freedom Native American Moral Conscience Missionaries' Critique of Anglicization The Moral Appeal of Christianity Disaffiliation and Affiliation Epilogue Hannah Adams and the Revolutionary Nation Conclusion: Limits and Paradoxes Index
Introduction Chapter One: Disorder and Confessionalism Sources for Restoration-era Writers England's Confessional Ideology Confessional Descriptions of the World's Religions Chapter Two: Praying Indians Conversion within English Protestant Communities Missions to Algonquian Communities in New England Chapter Three: Revolution and Toleration Apologists for the Revolution of 1688 Religious Comparison and the Idea of Toleration Travel and Religious Encounters Chapter Four: Empire and Whig Moralism Imperial Agendas Whig Criteria for Religious Authenticity New Studies of the World's Religions Eighteenth-century Travelers Chapter Five: Power, Ceremony, and Roman Catholicism French Whigs and the Critique of Ceremonialism Descriptions of Ceremonial Power Images of the World's Religions Religious Diversity and Roman Catholicism Chapter Six: Indian Conversions The Great Awakening and Moral Freedom Native American Moral Conscience Missionaries' Critique of Anglicization The Moral Appeal of Christianity Disaffiliation and Affiliation Epilogue Hannah Adams and the Revolutionary Nation Conclusion: Limits and Paradoxes Index
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