Religion and Governance in England's Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601-1698

1. Introduction: Introduction: ''A Just Government'': Empire, Religion, Chaplains and the Corporation .- 2. The Virginia Company and the Foundations of Religious Governance in English Commercial Expansion .- 3.  The Plymouth Company and Massachusetts Bay Company (1622-1639): Establishing Theocratic Corporate Governance .- 4. Apostasy and Debauchery (1601-1660): Behaviour, Passive Evangelism and the East India and Levant Company Chaplains .- 5. The Massachusetts Bay Company and New England Company (1640-1684): Exportation, Revaluation and the Demise of Corporate Theocratic Governance .- 6. The East India Company (1661-1698): Territorial Acquisition and the ''Amsterdam of Liberty'' .- 7. Conclusion .- 8. Bibliography.