Ebook: Spiritual encounters : interactions between Christianity and native religions in colonial America
Author: Griffiths Nicholas, Cervantes Fernando
- Tags: Christianity and culture -- America. Indians of North America -- Religion. Christianity and culture -- America -- History. Indians -- Missions. Indians -- Religion. History. Religion. RELIGION -- Christian Church -- History. RELIGION -- Christianity -- History. Christianity and culture. America.
- Year: 1999
- Publisher: University of Birmingham Press
- City: Birmingham, America
- Language: English
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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 Read more...
Abstract: 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