Global Reformations Sourcebook

Taylor & Francis

Global Reformations SourcebookConvergence, Conversion, and Conflict in Early Modern Religious Encounters\nAuthor(s): Nicholas Terpstra\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367133986, 978-0367133986\nSynopsis\nThis volume of primary sources brings together letters, memoirs, petitions, tracts, and stories related to religion and reform around the globe from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. \n\nThe common subject of the sources is the Reformation, and these texts demonstrate the themes and impacts of religious reform in Europe and around the globe. Scholars once framed the Reformation as a sixteenth-century European dispute between Protestant and Catholic churches and states, but now look expansively at connections and entanglements between different confessions, faiths, time periods, and geographical areas. The Reformation coincided with Europeans expanding reach across the globe as traders, settlers, a.