Spiritual encounters : interactions between Christianity and native religions in colonial America / edited by Nicholas Griffiths and Fernando Cervantes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Griffiths, Nicholas, 1962- editor.

Cervantes, Fernando, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians--Religion.

Indians.

Indians--Missions.

Christianity and culture--America--History.

Christianity and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 p.)

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : University of Birmingham Press, [1999]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Encounters between religions and the resulting questions pertaining to belief and faith are among the most intriguing subjects with which scholars grapple. How do people adjust, accommodate, resist, reinterpret and harmonize different systems of belief? Do religious conversions often mask more worldly concerns such as political power, economic well being, and the ability to control one's destiny? Specifically adopting a cross-hemispheric approach, this volume draws on experiences of religious change principally in hispanophone America, but also in anglophone and francophone America, in order t

Contents:

Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction; 1 Spreading the Word: missionaries, conversion and circulation in the northeast; 2 'The kindness of the blessed Virgin': faith, succour, and the cult of Mary among Christian Hurons and Iroquois in seventeenth-century New France; 3 'Here is another marvel': Marian miracle narratives in a Nahuatl manuscript; 4 Cultural boundaries between adaptation and defiance: the mission communities of northwestern New Spain; 5 'Telling lives': confessional autobiography and the reconstruction of the Nahua self

6 Contesting the power to heal: angels, demons and plants in colonial Mexico7 Andean curanderos and their repressers: the persecution of native healing in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Peru; 8 El callejón de la soledad: vectors of cultural hybridity in seventeenth-century Lima; 9 Repression and cultural change: the 'Extirpation of Idolatry' in colonial Peru; 10 'Chicha in the chalice': spiritual conflict in Spanish American mission culture; Epilogue: the middle ground; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 22, 2014).

ISBN:

9786613195500

9781283195508

128319550X

9780567250629

0567250628

OCLC:

741687211