Religious transformations in the early modern Americas / edited by Stephanie Kirk and Sarah Rivett ; Ralph Bauer [and eleven others], contributors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kirk, Stephanie L., editor.

Rivett, Sarah, editor.

Bauer, Ralph, contributor.

Series:

Early modern Americas.

Early Modern Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity--North America.

Christianity.

Christianity--South America.

Missions--North America.

Missions.

North America--Church history.

North America.

South America--Church history.

South America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Christianity took root in the Americas during the early modern period when a historically unprecedented migration brought European clergy, religious seekers, and explorers to the New World. Protestant and Catholic settlers undertook the arduous journey for a variety of motivations. Some fled corrupt theocracies and sought to reclaim ancient principles and Christian ideals in a remote unsettled territory. Others intended to glorify their home nations and churches by bringing new lands and subjects under the rule of their kings. Many imagined the indigenous peoples they encountered as "savages" awaiting the salvific force of Christ. Whether by overtly challenging European religious authority and traditions or by adapting to unforeseen hardship and resistance, these envoys reshaped faith, liturgy, and ecclesiology and fundamentally transformed the practice and theology of Christianity. Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas explores the impact of colonial encounters in the Atlantic world on the history of Christianity. Essays from across disciplines examine religious history from a spatial perspective, tracing geographical movements and population dispersals as they were shaped by the millennial designs and evangelizing impulses of European empires. At the same time, religion provides a provocative lens through which to view patterns of social restriction, exclusion, and tension, as well as those of acculturation, accommodation, and resistance in a comparative colonial context. Through nuanced attention to the particularities of faith, especially Anglo-Protestant settlements in North America and the Ibero-Catholic missions in Latin America, Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas illuminates the complexity and variety of the colonial world as it transformed a range of Christian beliefs. Contributors: Ralph Bauer, David A. Boruchoff, Matt Cohen, Sir John Elliot, Carmen Fernández-Salvador, Júnia Ferreira Furtado, Sandra M. Gustafson, David D. Hall, Stephanie Kirk, Asunción Lavrin, Sarah Rivett, Teresa Toulouse.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. Religions on the Move

Chapter 2. Baroque New Worlds

Chapter 3. Martín de Murúa, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, and the Contested Uses of Saintly Models in Writing Colonial American History

Chapter 4. Transatlantic Passages

Chapter 5. Dying for Christ

Chapter 6. Believing in Piety

Chapter 7. Return as a Religious Mission

Chapter 8. Jesuit Missionary Work in the Imperial Frontier

Chapter 9. “Reader . . . Behold One Raised by God”

Chapter 10. Between Cicero and Augustine

Notes

List of Contributors

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780812290288

0812290283

OCLC:

893680251