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Heaven's wrath : the Protestant Reformation and the Dutch West India Company in the Atlantic world /
"Explores the cultural and other impacts of Calvinist ideology and Calvinist religion in the early Dutch Atlantic world"--
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2019.
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| Series: | New Netherland Institute studies
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the role of Reformed Christianity in the commercial and colonial endeavors of the Dutch Golden Age
- The Dutch Reformed Church in the Netherlands and the international concerns of the Calvinist ministry
- The directors of the Dutch West India Company and the religious activity of Dutch merchants in Europe
- Baptized by water and fire : the religious ideology and rites of the company's early fleets and conquests
- The challenges and shortcomings of public worship in the company's first forts and colonial settlements
- Calvinist reformers in Dutch Brazil and the impacts of reform on Portuguese Catholics before the revolt
- Unrighteous rulers, sinful settlers, and religious dissenters in New Netherland and the Dutch Caribbean
- The harvest was great, the laborers few : Dutch mission theology and outreach among Africans and Indians
- Tensions and conflicts over religious resources and power in the West India Company's later years
- Conclusion : the West India Company, the East India Company, and the Catholic powers in comparative perspective.