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1 online resource (xi, 304 pages, 1 facsimile) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Spreading the Word : missionaries, conversion and circulation in the northeast / David Murray -- "The kindness of the blessed Virgin" : faith, succour, and the cult of Mary among Christian Hurons and Iroquois in seventeenth-century New France / William B. Hart -- "Here is another marvel" : Marian miracle narratives in a Nahuatl manuscript / Louise M. Burkhart -- Cultural boundaries between adaptation and defiance : the mission communities of northwestern New Spain / Cynthia Radding -- "Telling lives" : confessional autobiography and the reconstruction of the Nahua self / J. |
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Jorge Klor de Alva -- Contesting the power to heal : angels, demons and plants in colonial Mexico / Osvaldo F. Pardo -- Andean curanderos and their repressors : the persecution of native healing in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth century Peru / Nicholas Griffiths -- El callejón de la soledad : vectors of cultural hybridity in seventeenth-century Lima / Alejandra B. Osorio -- Repression and cultural change : the 'Extirpation of Idolatry' in colonial Peru / Iris Gareis -- "Chicha in the chalice" : spiritual conflict in Spanish American mission culture / Lance Grahn -- Epilogue : the middle. |
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ground / Fernando Cervantes. |
| 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, i. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Christianity and culture -- America.
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Christianity and culture. |
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America. |
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Indians of North America -- Religion.
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Indians of North America -- Religion. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Griffiths, Nicholas, 1962-
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Cervantes, Fernando.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Spiritual encounters. Birmingham : University of Birmingham Press, ©1999 1902459016 (OCoLC)40800484 |
| ISBN |
9780567250629 (electronic book) |
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0567250628 (electronic book) |
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1902459016 |
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9781902459011 |
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