Religious transformations in the early modern Americas /
Christianity took root in the Americas during the early modern period when a historically unprecedented migration brought European clergy, religious seekers, and explorers to the New World. Protestant and Catholic settlers undertook the arduous journey for a variety of motivations. Some fled corrupt...
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2014
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Early modern Americas.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Stephanie Kirk and Sarah Rivett
- Part I. Comparisons
- ch. 1. Religions on the move / J.H. Elliott
- ch. 2. Baroque new worlds : ethnography and demonology in the Reformation and counter-Reformation / Ralph Bauer
- ch. 3. Martin de Murua, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, and the contested uses of saintly models in writing colonial American history / David A. Boruchoff
- Part II. Crossings
- ch. 4. Transatlantic passages : the reformed tradition and the politics of wriitng / David D. Hall
- Chapter 5. Dying for Christ : martyrdom in New Spain / Asuncion Lavrin
- Part III. Missions
- ch. 6. Believing in piety : spiritual transformation across cultures in early New England / Matt Cohen
- ch. 7. Return as a religious mission : the voyage to Dahomey made by the Brazilian Mulatto Catholic priests Cipriano Pires Sardinha and Vicente Ferreira Pires / Junia Ferreira Furtado
- ch. 8. Jesuit missionary work in the imperial frontier : mapping the Amazon in seventeenth-century Quito / Carmen Fernandez-Salvador
- Part IV. Legacies
- ch. 9. "Reader ... behold one raised by God." : religious transformations in Cotton Mather's 'Pietas in patriam : the life of his excellency Sir William Phips, Knt.' / Teresa A. Toulouse
- ch. 10. Between Cicero and Augustine : religions and republicanism in the Americas and beyond / Sandra M. Gustafson.
