Puritans and Catholics in the Trans-Atlantic World 1600-1800
. Ed(S): Gribben, Crawford; Spurlock, R. Scott
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Paperback. Editor(s): Gribben, Crawford; Spurlock, R. Scott. Series: Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World, 1500-1800. BIC Classification: HBJK. Dimension: 216 x 140. .
For many English puritans, the new world represented new opportunities for the reification of reformation, if not a site within which they might begin to experience the conditions of the millennium itself. For many Irish Catholics, by contrast, the new world became associated with the experience of defeat, forced transportation, indentured service, cultural and religious loss. And yet, as the chapters in this volume demonstrate, the Atlantic experience of puritans and Catholics could be much less bifurcated than some of the established scholarly narratives have suggested: puritans and Catholics could co-exist within the same trans-Atlantic families; Catholics could prosper, just ... Read more
For many English puritans, the new world represented new opportunities for the reification of reformation, if not a site within which they might begin to experience the conditions of the millennium itself. For many Irish Catholics, by contrast, the new world became associated with the experience of defeat, forced transportation, indentured service, cultural and religious loss. And yet, as the chapters in this volume demonstrate, the Atlantic experience of puritans and Catholics could be much less bifurcated than some of the established scholarly narratives have suggested: puritans and Catholics could co-exist within the same trans-Atlantic families; Catholics could prosper, just ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Language
English
Condition
New
Series
Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World, 1500-1800
Number of Pages
247
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349570225
SKU
V9781349570225
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About . Ed(S): Gribben, Crawford; Spurlock, R. Scott
Crawford Gribben is Professor of Early Modern British History at Queen's University Belfast, UK. He is the author of several books on the literary cultures of Puritanism and evangelicalism, including God's Irishmen (2007), Writing the Rapture: Prophecy fiction in evangelical America (2009), and Evangelical millennialism in the trans-Atlantic world, 1500-2000 (2011). R. Scott Spurlock is Lecturer in Religious ... Read more
Reviews for Puritans and Catholics in the Trans-Atlantic World 1600-1800
“Includes recent monographs and edited collections by several contributors to this volume. ... Overall, the collection provides a nuanced reassessment of confessional relationships and lays out a number of promising directions for future scholarship on the process of religious reform in the Atlantic world.” (Elizabeth Bouldin, Church History, Vol. 87 (1), March, 2018) “The collection attempts to trace ... Read more