Religion and society in Latin America : interpretive essays from conquest to present / Lee M. Penyak and Walter J. Petry, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Penyak, Lee M.

Petry, Walter J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin America--Church history.

Latin America.

Church history.

Latin America--Religion.

Religion.

Christianity and culture--Latin America.

Christianity and culture.

Latin America--Religious life and customs.

Physical Description:

xxii, 298 pages : maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, [2009]

Contents:

Five hundred years of evangelizing Latin America / Lee M. Penyak and Walter J. Petry

The right to appropriate, the duty to evangelize : Spain and the conquest of the new world / Lee M. Penyak and Walter J. Petry

Friars' accounts of the native peoples of the Americas / John F. Schwaller

Conversion and the spiritual conquest / David Tavárez and John F. Chuchiak

Afro-Latin Americans and Christianity / Nicole von Germeten and Javier Villa-Flores

Priests and nuns in colonial Ibero-America / Karen Melvin

The holy office of the inquisition and women / Jacqueline Holler

Church-sponsored education in Latin America, c. 1800-c. 1930 / Grover Antonio Espinoza

Anticlericalism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Jeffrey Klaiber

"Not to be called Christian" : Protestant perceptions of Catholicism in nineteenth-century Latin America / Monica I. Orozco

"Like a mighty rushing wind" : the growth of Protestantism in contemporary Latin America / Virginia Garrard-Burnett

Charismatic competitors : Protestant Pentecostals and Catholic Charismatics in Latin America's new religious marketplace / R. Andrew Chesnut

Umbanda / Lindsay Hale

The Catholic Church and social revolutionaries / Jennifer S. Hughes

"A preferential and evangelizing option for the poor" : the Catholic Church from Medellín to Aparecida / Robert S. Pelton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781570758508

1570758506

OCLC:

312445679