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GLASSON, T., Mastering Christianity. Missionary Anglicanism and Slavery in the Atlantic World. Oxford University Press, 2017. 330p. Paperback. While the book is constructed largely as a study of the eighteenth-century Atlantic World, religion, race, and the institution of slavery, it also has broader importance to the study of the often surprisingly complex and multifaceted world of imperial and colonial society where religion functioned with a motivational power only misleadingly reduced to material or social forces. Nevertheless, Glasson also impressively demonstrates the degree to which economic, worldly realities forged the environment of empire and influenced religious beliefs, often in ways that contradicted and corroded Christian ethical precept, and in the eighteenth century, reinforced the emergence of new racial hierarchies while providing support for the institution of slavery. Steven S. Maughan, Journal of Early Modern History (Publisher's information). € 40.07 (New) (Printed on Demand) (approx. delivery time: 4 weeks) ISBN: 9780190683016