Charles Parker

Charles Parker

Saint Louis University

Early Modern Global Entanglements

Statement: My project (Global Calvinism: Conversion and Commerce in the Dutch Empire, 1600-1800) examines the Calvinist missionary project within the commercial operations of the East India (VOC) and West India (WIC) companies. Dutch Calvinist pastors embedded in the trading companies formed the earliest and most sustained Protestant global missionary enterprise to venture outside of Europe. My book examines two basic questions: how did Calvinism contribute to commercial empire and how did commercial empire affect Calvinism?

cparker@ias.edu

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