The Opening of the Protestant Mind: How Anglo-American Protestants Embraced Religious Liberty

by Mark Valeri

During the mid-seventeenth century, Anglo-American Protestants described Native American ceremonies as savage devilry, Islamic teaching as violent chicanery, and Catholicism as repugnant superstition. By the mid-eighteenth century, they would describe amicable debates between evangelical missionaries and Algonquian religious leaders about the moral appeal of Christianity, recount learned conversations between English merchants and Muslim scholars,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197663672
• ISBN13: 9780197663677
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.3"