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Global Calvinism - Conversion and Commerce in the Dutch Empire, 1600-1800 (Hardcover)
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Global Calvinism - Conversion and Commerce in the Dutch Empire, 1600-1800 (Hardcover)
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A comprehensive study of the connection between Calvinist missions
and Dutch imperial expansion during the early modern period "A tour
de force offering the reader the best study of global Calvinism in
the realms of the Dutch East India Company."-Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia,
editor, Calvinism and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age
Calvinism went global in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,
as close to a thousand Dutch Reformed ministers, along with
hundreds of lay chaplains, attached themselves to the Dutch East
India and West India companies. Across Asia, Africa, and the
Americas where the trading companies set up operation, Dutch
ministers sought to convert "pagans," "Moors," Jews, and Catholics
and to spread the cultural influence of Protestant Christianity. As
Dutch ministers labored under the auspices of the trading
companies, the missionary project coalesced, sometimes grudgingly
but often readily, with empire building and mercantile capitalism.
Simultaneously, Calvinism became entangled with societies around
the world as encounters with indigenous societies shaped the
development of European religious and intellectual history. Though
historians have traditionally treated the Protestant and European
expansion as unrelated developments, the global reach of Dutch
Calvinism offers a unique opportunity to understand the
intermingling of a Protestant faith, commerce, and empire.
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