Katherine Carté Engel
Biographic Data
| ID | 952664 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katherine Carté Engel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katherine Carté |
| FAMILY NAME | Engel |
| SIGNATURE | ENGEL K C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Methodist University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Connecting Protestants in Britain's Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Empire
Historians have debated whether religion united or divided the eighteenth-century British Empire. "Connecting Protestants" reassesses those debates by tracing who nurtured ties among Protestants across the empire's long distances, diverse establishments, and varied traditions. Recognizing the mechanisms, personal and institutional, through which religious leaders communicated and collaborated reveals a symbiotic relationship between the empire's …
A Harmony of the Spirits: Translation and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania
Recent characterizations of William Penn's “holy experiment” in establishing and developing a colony have vacillated between highlighting its relative harmony and dwelling on its brutal conflicts. Patrick M. Erben's wonderfully imaginative work on language and translation gently reminds scholars of Pennsylvania's better angels; he uses English, German, and American sources to tease out the religious utopianism deep in the colony's soul. Arguing t…
The SPCK and the American Revolution: The Limits of International Protestantism
The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) occupied an unusual position in the British Atlantic as an internationally minded voluntary organization rooted in Anglicanism but also able to unite members of different Protestant groups. Its history during the American Revolution provides opportunity to examine the ideal of international Protestantism in the latter part of the eighteenth century. This investigation indicates that, despite ma…
Heavenly Merchandize: How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America
Mark Valeri's new book provides a lucid and thorough treatment of an enduring subject: “How did pious New Englanders come to revere the market as it developed in their day?” (p. 3). Valeri's investigation combines a collective biography of four generations of Boston's transatlantic merchants with an intellectual history of Puritan theology and political economy between 1630 and 1730. This approach results in a narrative that is closely woven and …
A Harmony of the Spirits: Translation and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania
Recent characterizations of William Penn's “holy experiment” in establishing and developing a colony have vacillated between highlighting its relative harmony and dwelling on its brutal conflicts. Patrick M. Erben's wonderfully imaginative work on language and translation gently reminds scholars of Pennsylvania's better angels; he uses English, German, and American sources to tease out the religious utopianism deep in the colony's soul. Arguing t…
Heavenly Merchandize: How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America
Mark Valeri's new book provides a lucid and thorough treatment of an enduring subject: “How did pious New Englanders come to revere the market as it developed in their day?” (p. 3). Valeri's investigation combines a collective biography of four generations of Boston's transatlantic merchants with an intellectual history of Puritan theology and political economy between 1630 and 1730. This approach results in a narrative that is closely woven and …
The SPCK and the American Revolution: The Limits of International Protestantism
The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) occupied an unusual position in the British Atlantic as an internationally minded voluntary organization rooted in Anglicanism but also able to unite members of different Protestant groups. Its history during the American Revolution provides opportunity to examine the ideal of international Protestantism in the latter part of the eighteenth century. This investigation indicates that, despite ma…
A Harmony of the Spirits: Translation and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania
Recent characterizations of William Penn's “holy experiment” in establishing and developing a colony have vacillated between highlighting its relative harmony and dwelling on its brutal conflicts. Patrick M. Erben's wonderfully imaginative work on language and translation gently reminds scholars of Pennsylvania's better angels; he uses English, German, and American sources to tease out the religious utopianism deep in the colony's soul. Arguing t…
Connecting Protestants in Britain's Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Empire
Historians have debated whether religion united or divided the eighteenth-century British Empire. "Connecting Protestants" reassesses those debates by tracing who nurtured ties among Protestants across the empire's long distances, diverse establishments, and varied traditions. Recognizing the mechanisms, personal and institutional, through which religious leaders communicated and collaborated reveals a symbiotic relationship between the empire's …
History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Religious studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Protestantism (3 works)