Protestant Empires

Ulinka Rublack is Professor of European History at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Reformation Europe, 2nd edition (2017), and editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations (2016) and The Concise Companion to History (2011).

• 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.

'Protestant Empires cross-fertilizes two of the most productive trends in early modern historiography: the globalization of history, and the pluralization of the Reformation. In its richly researched chapters, an all-star cast of scholars kaleidoscopically portrays how Protestantism spread 'to the ends of the earth' with transformative effects from the Americas to Asia.' David Armitage, Harvard University, Massachusetts