The spiritual conversion of the Americas [electronic resource] / edited by James Muldoon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Muldoon, James, 1935-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Missions--America--History.

America--Church history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In addition to examining a wide range of conversion experiences, this volume also discusses the differences in the Protestant and Catholic conversion efforts, the ways in which the various Catholic religious orders approached potential converts, and the implications of Catholic attempts to convert English Protestants in the New World.

Contents:

Table of Contents Page 1; Table of Contents Page 2; Preface vii; Introduction: Seeking Spiritual Gold in the Americas 1James Muldoon; 1. Making the Land Holy: The Mission Frontierin Early Medieval Europe and Colonial Mexico 17Daniel T. Reff; 2. Conversion Practices on the New Mexico Frontier 36Barbara De Marco; 3. Two Kinds of Conversion ("Medieval" and "Modern")among the Hurons of New France 57Peter Goddard; 4. Conversion in Theory and Practice: John Eliot's Missionto the Indians 78Annie Parker; 5. Lutherans Meet the Indians: A Seventeenth-CenturyConversion Debate 99Dennis C. Landis

6. Dutch Calvinism and Native Americans: A Comparative Studyof the Motivations for Protestant Conversion among the Tupísin Northeastern Brazil (1630-1654) and the Mohawksin Central New York (1690-17107. "None of These Wandering Nations Has Ever Been Reducedto the Faith": Missions and Mobility on the Spanish-AmericanFrontier 142Amy Turner Bushnell; 8. Confessing the Indians: Guilt Discourse and Acculturationin Early Spanish America 169Jaime Valenzuela Márquez; 9. Conversion in Portuguese America 192Isabel dos Guimarães Sá

10. Making Papists of Puritans: Accounting for New English Conversionsin New France 215Evan Haefeli11. Gold for Glasse: The Trope of Trade in EnglishMissionary Writings 231Laura M. Stevens; List of Contributors 253; Index 255

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8130-3587-2

OCLC:

680227591