Opening of the Protestant Mind

Introduction

Chapter One: Disorder and Confessionalism
Sources for Restoration-era Writers
England's Confessional Ideology
Confessional Descriptions of the World's Religions

Chapter Two: Praying Indians
Conversion within English Protestant Communities
Missions to Algonquian Communities in New England

Chapter Three: Revolution and Toleration
Apologists for the Revolution of 1688
Religious Comparison and the Idea of Toleration
Travel and Religious Encounters

Chapter Four: Empire and Whig Moralism
Imperial Agendas
Whig Criteria for Religious Authenticity
New Studies of the World's Religions
Eighteenth-century Travelers

Chapter Five: Power, Ceremony, and Roman Catholicism
French Whigs and the Critique of Ceremonialism
Descriptions of Ceremonial Power
Images of the World's Religions
Religious Diversity and Roman Catholicism

Chapter Six: Indian Conversions
The Great Awakening and Moral Freedom
Native American Moral Conscience
Missionaries' Critique of Anglicization
The Moral Appeal of Christianity
Disaffiliation and Affiliation

Epilogue
Hannah Adams and the Revolutionary Nation
Conclusion: Limits and Paradoxes

Index

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• História da religião
• História Militar
• Batalhas e campanhas
• Início da história moderna: c 1450/1500 a c 1700
• História moderna para o século 20: c1700 a c 1900
• Guerra da Independência Americana
• Protestantismo e igrejas protestantes