TY  - BOOK
AU  - Noorlander,D.L.
TI  - Heaven's wrath: the Protestant Reformation and the Dutch West India Company in the Atlantic world 
T2  - New Netherland Institute studies
SN  - 9789087283308
U1  - 298.842492 23A
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - Leiden University Press
KW  - Reformed Church
KW  - Netherlands
KW  - History
KW  - Calvinism
KW  - America
KW  - Dutch
KW  - Africa, West
KW  - Colonies
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Protestant churches
N1  - "Published in association with the New Netherland Institute."; Includes bibliographical references; Introduction : the role of Reformed Christianity in the commercial and colonial endeavors of the Dutch Golden Age -- The Dutch Reformed Church in the Netherlands and the international concerns of the Calvinist ministry -- The directors of the Dutch West India Company and the religious activity of Dutch merchants in Europe -- Baptized by water and fire : the religious ideology and rites of the company's early fleets and conquests -- The challenges and shortcomings of public worship in the company's first forts and colonial settlements -- Calvinist reformers in Dutch Brazil and the impacts of reform on Portuguese Catholics before the revolt -- Unrighteous rulers, sinful settlers, and religious dissenters in New Netherland and the Dutch Caribbean -- The harvest was great, the laborers few : Dutch mission theology and outreach among Africans and Indians -- Tensions and conflicts over religious resources and power in the West India Company's later years -- Conclusion : the West India Company, the East India Company, and the Catholic powers in comparative perspective
N2  - "Explores the cultural and other impacts of Calvinist ideology and Calvinist religion in the early Dutch Atlantic world"--
ER  -