The Quest for Purity : : Dynamics of Puritan Movements / / ed. by W. E. van Beek.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Theology and Religious Studies <1990
• HerausgeberIn: Beek, W. E. van,
• MitwirkendeR: Beek, Walter E. A. van,; Beek, Walter E.A. van,; Broeyer, Frits G. M.,; Kreyenbroek, Philip G.,; Meiden, Anne van der,; Post, Piet,; Ree, Erik van,; Staples, Peter,; Velzen, Thoden van,; Waardenburg, Jacques D.J.,; Zürcher, Erik,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: Reprint 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Religion and Society , 26
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (273 p.) :; Num. figs.

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Contents
• PURITY, A GREEDY IDEOLOGY
• A pure city: Calvins Geneva
• Patterns of purification: the New England Puritans
• Puritanism and the Second Reformation in the Netherlands
• Purifying Holland: the Dutch Evangelicals
• Puritans in Arabia: the WahhabI movement (18th-19th c.)
• Purity and statecraft: the Fulani jihad and its empire
• Shiᶜite purity: some aspects of the Islamic revolution in Iran
• Purity in the Taiping rebellion
• Puritan movements in Suriname and Tanzania
• The quest for purity in communism
• Notes on contributors
• Index of concepts
• Index of personal names