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Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas shows what happened to Christianity when Old World doctrine and belief crossed the Atlantic and collided with New World realities. Essays from across disciplines explore the impact of colonial contexts on the symbolic institutions of Protestanti...
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2015] ©2015 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
The early modern americas
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| Summary: |
Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas shows what happened to Christianity when Old World doctrine and belief crossed the Atlantic and collided with New World realities. Essays from across disciplines explore the impact of colonial contexts on the symbolic institutions of Protestantism and Catholicism. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (360 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | 23 illus. |
| ISBN: | 9780812290288 |
| Index Number: | BR510 |
| CLC: | B977.71 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Chapter 1. Religions on the Move / Chapter 2. Baroque New Worlds / Chapter 3. Mart n de Mur a, 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. |