Damned Souls in a Tobacco Colony: Religion in Seventeenth-century Virginia"In this study, historian Edward L. Bond provides an inside view of religion in America's first colony. Focusing or religion as various expressions of individual and corporate relationship with the divine, the author gives the reader a picture of religion and society in colonial Virginia. In the process, he clarifies our understandings of Virginia's established Anglican Church, discusses the theology and devotional practices of the colonists, and explains the role of religion in colonial polity. Such an approach allows the reader to see both the conservative and progressive elements in the way the earliest colonists in Virginia defined their individual and corporate relationship with God." "Throughout Bond's analysis, he shows that by the end of the seventeenth century Virginians, though viewing themselves as Anglicans, nonetheless gradually discovered that they were defending an ecclesiastical institution much different from the one they left behind in England."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... theology and devotional practices of the colonists , and explains the role of religion in colonial polity . Such an approach allows the reader to see clearly both the conservative and progressive elements in the way the earliest ...
... theology and devotional practices of the colonists , and explains the role of religion in colonial polity . Such an approach allows the reader to see clearly both the conservative and progressive elements in the way the earliest ...
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... theology , devotion , and piety . Yet others believed the book was going to be about the place of religion in the colonial polity . Some people thought that when I said religion I meant popular religion - magic and witchcraft . With the ...
... theology , devotion , and piety . Yet others believed the book was going to be about the place of religion in the colonial polity . Some people thought that when I said religion I meant popular religion - magic and witchcraft . With the ...
Page ix
... theology , personal piety , and the ways in which people showed their devotion . It is about the place of institutional religion in the good polity , and it is about how a people from different religious parties could organize a ...
... theology , personal piety , and the ways in which people showed their devotion . It is about the place of institutional religion in the good polity , and it is about how a people from different religious parties could organize a ...
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... theology between 1680 and 1740 than between 1607 and 1640 , a period from which there are virtually no sources that can be used to establish a coherent theology among Virginians beyond . the simple fact that they were overwhelmingly ...
... theology between 1680 and 1740 than between 1607 and 1640 , a period from which there are virtually no sources that can be used to establish a coherent theology among Virginians beyond . the simple fact that they were overwhelmingly ...
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Contents
Get Thee Out of Thy Land | xi |
Constructing A Polity Englands Soteriology Of Empire | 33 |
Creating an Identity Geography Profit and the Invisible Hand of James I | 89 |
Ambiguous Englishmen | 173 |
The Religion of Anglicans in James Blairs Virginia | 235 |
continuities the religious Journeys of a Colonial Virginian | 283 |
Bibliography | 299 |
Index | 319 |
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