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- Protestant Empires
- Protestant Empires
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Reworking Reformation in the Early English Atlantic
- 2 Puritanism in a Local Context: Ministry, People, and Church in 1630s Massachusetts
- 3 Learned Reading in the Atlantic Colonies: How Humanist Practices Crossed the Atlantic
- 4 Portable Lives: Reformed Artisans and Refined Materials in the Refugee Atlantic
- 5 Idolatry, Markets, and Confession: The Global Project of the de Bry Family
- 6 “Better the Turk than the Pope”: Calvinist Engagement with Islam in Southeast Asia
- 7 Inventing a Lutheran Ritual: Baptisms of Muslims and Africans in Early Modern Germany
- 8 Conversion and Its Discontents on the Southern Colonial Frontier: The Pietist Encounter with Non-Christians in Colonial Georgia
- 9 Globalizing the Protestant Reformation through Millenarian Practices
- 10 Global Protestant Missions and the Role of Emotions
- 11 The Sacred World of Mary Prince
- 12 New Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality in Global Protestantism, 1500–1800
- Index
9 - Globalizing the Protestant Reformation through Millenarian Practices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 August 2020
- Protestant Empires
- Protestant Empires
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Reworking Reformation in the Early English Atlantic
- 2 Puritanism in a Local Context: Ministry, People, and Church in 1630s Massachusetts
- 3 Learned Reading in the Atlantic Colonies: How Humanist Practices Crossed the Atlantic
- 4 Portable Lives: Reformed Artisans and Refined Materials in the Refugee Atlantic
- 5 Idolatry, Markets, and Confession: The Global Project of the de Bry Family
- 6 “Better the Turk than the Pope”: Calvinist Engagement with Islam in Southeast Asia
- 7 Inventing a Lutheran Ritual: Baptisms of Muslims and Africans in Early Modern Germany
- 8 Conversion and Its Discontents on the Southern Colonial Frontier: The Pietist Encounter with Non-Christians in Colonial Georgia
- 9 Globalizing the Protestant Reformation through Millenarian Practices
- 10 Global Protestant Missions and the Role of Emotions
- 11 The Sacred World of Mary Prince
- 12 New Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality in Global Protestantism, 1500–1800
- Index
Summary
In the early eighteenth century, Pietist networks in Germany initiated missionary projects in South India and over the years in different parts of the world. Millenarian expectations and their distinctive concept of the future, shaped the Protestant mission to South India in every respect from planning and communication, medialization and fundraising, right down to the local missionary work. Four dynamics of the globalization of Protestantism are central to the contribution: (1) transregional and transnational network building with the participation of women and men in Protestant Europe; (2) the transfer of knowledge and objects from Europe to India and vice versa; (3) transcultural interactions and the importance of converted Indians for the local missionary work; (4) the consolidation of the European religious Identity through the medialization of the mission with the narrative of progress. The article examines letters between the organizers of the mission to South India in Halle, London, and at the Danish court; the correspondence between Halle and male and female donators for the mission in Europe; and the published mission journal.
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- Protestant EmpiresGlobalizing the Reformations, pp. 254 - 274Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020