Political Sermons of the American Founding Era, 1730-1805
Political Sermons of the American Founding Era, 1730-1805

Author: Ellis Sandoz

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780865971783

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The early political culture of the American republic was so deeply influenced by the religious consciousness of the New England preachers that it was often through the political sermon that the political rhetoric of the period was formed, refined and transmitted. Political sermons such as the fifty-five collected in this work are unique to America, in both kind and significance, because they address the centrality of religious concerns in the lives of eighteenth-century Americans.

Religion and Governance in England’s Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601–1698
Religion and Governance in England’s Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601–1698

Author: Haig Z. Smith

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2021-11-03

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9783030701307

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This open access book explores the role of religion in England's overseas companies and the formation of English governmental identity abroad in the seventeenth century. Drawing on research into the Virginia, East India, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New England and Levant Companies, it offers a comparative global assessment of the inextricable links between the formation of English overseas government and various models of religious governance across England's emerging colonial empire. While these approaches to governance varied from company to company, each sought to regulate the behaviour of their personnel, as well as the numerous communities and faiths which fell within their jurisdiction. This book provides a crucial reassessment of the seventeenth-century foundations of British imperial governance.