Global Reformations Sourcebook

This 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. The 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 Europeansâ expanding reach across the globe as traders settlers and colonists but the role that religion played in this drive has yet to be fully explored. These readings highlight these reformersâ engagements with Judaism Islam Buddhism and indigenous spirituality and the entanglement of Christian reform with colonialism trade enslavement and racism. Offering a sustained comparative and interdisciplinary exploration of religious transformations in the early modern world this collection of primary sources is invaluable to both undergraduate and postgraduate students working on theology the Reformation and early modern society. . Language: English