Empires of God: Religious Encounters in the Early Modern Atlantic. By Linda Gregerson and Susan Juster (eds.)

As the title of the book, edited by Linda Gregerson and Susan Juster, Empires of God: Religious Encounters in the Early Modern Atlantic, suggests, its contributions highlight the interconnection of religious and political factors which influenced and shaped the colonisation of the eastern North Amer...

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Main Author: Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz, Sabine (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2014
In: Literature and theology
Year: 2014, Volume: 28, Issue: 1, Pages: 114-118
Review of:Empires of God (Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) (Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz, Sabine)
Empires of God (Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) (Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz, Sabine)
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Summary:As the title of the book, edited by Linda Gregerson and Susan Juster, Empires of God: Religious Encounters in the Early Modern Atlantic, suggests, its contributions highlight the interconnection of religious and political factors which influenced and shaped the colonisation of the eastern North American continent, in New England and New France (as well as one case of Mexico), around 1550–1760., Linda Gregerson and Susan Juster have put together a meticulously edited book, well documented by the authors and with a number of cross-references among the articles. (Unfortunately, there is no general bibliography at the end of the book or of each article, which makes it necessary to work one's way through each apparatus of endnotes.), According to the editors' introduction (pp.
ISSN:1477-4623
Contains:Enthalten in: Literature and theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frt015