Apostasy and Debauchery (1601–1660)
Behaviour, Passive Evangelism and the East India and Levant Company Chaplains
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20066111 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Haig Z Smith, Haig Smith (0000-0003-0691-7453, University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Pages | 113-159 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Religion and Governance in England’s Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601–1698 (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Springer International Publishing (PUBLISHER • SG) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-3-030-70131-4_4 |
| OpenAlex | W4205476631 |
| ISBN | 9783030701314 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
This Chapter investigates an extraordinary group of company agents who have often been overlooked, but were ubiquitous in overseas corporate life; the chaplain. It provides a detailed assessment of the daily lives and responsibilities of chaplains. Moreover, it traces how they became important figures of control who policed over the spiritual and earthly lives of personnel in religiously and governmentally diverse environments of India, the Levant and Japan. This chapter examines how corporate chaplains, such as Edward Terry, Edward Pococke and Patrick Copeland, became instrumental figures in establishing corporate authority, and thereby commercial success, in this period. Furthermore, it reveals, through their published works, such as Terry’s, A Voyage to East-India, Lord’s, A display of two forraigne sects and the letters and works of Pococke, the essential role chaplains played in the corporate exchange of ideas and religious knowledge overseas. Finally, this chapter highlights how, throughout much of its existence, the LC and, for a small period, the EIC’s government, helped to inform the flexible process of how companies established corporate governance abroad and how they interacted with peoples, faiths and cultures
Apostasy · Archaeology · Art · Charisma · Corporate governance · Economics · Evangelism · Islam · Management · Political science · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |