Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas / / ed. by Sarah Rivett, Stephanie Kirk.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014
• MitwirkendeR: Bauer, Ralph,; Boruchoff, David A.,; Cohen, Matt,; Elliott, J. H.,; Fernández- Salvador, Carmen,; Ferreira Furtado, Júnia,; Gustafson, Sandra M.,; Hall, David D.,; Kirk, Stephanie,; Lavrin, Asunción,; Rivett, Sarah,; Toulouse, Teresa A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Kirk, Stephanie,; Rivett, Sarah,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: The Early Modern Americas
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.) :; 23 illus.

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 theocracies and sought to reclaim ancient principles and Christian ideals in a remote unsettled territory. Others intended to glorify their home nations and churches by bringing new lands and subjects under the rule of their kings. Many imagined the indigenous peoples they encountered as "savages" awaiting the salvific force of Christ. Whether by overtly challenging European religious authority and traditions or by adapting to unforeseen hardship and resistance, these envoys reshaped faith, liturgy, and ecclesiology and fundamentally transformed the practice and theology of Christianity.Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas explores the impact of colonial encounters in the Atlantic world on the history of Christianity. Essays from across disciplines examine religious history from a spatial perspective, tracing geographical movements and population dispersals as they were shaped by the millennial designs and evangelizing impulses of European empires. At the same time, religion provides a provocative lens through which to view patterns of social restriction, exclusion, and tension, as well as those of acculturation, accommodation, and resistance in a comparative colonial context. Through nuanced attention to the particularities of faith, especially Anglo-Protestant settlements in North America and the Ibero-Catholic missions in Latin America, Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas illuminates the complexity and variety of the colonial world as it transformed a range of Christian beliefs.Contributors: Ralph Bauer, David A. Boruchoff, Matt Cohen, Sir John Elliot, Carmen Fernández-Salvador, Júnia Ferreira Furtado, Sandra M. Gustafson, David D. Hall, Stephanie Kirk, Asunción Lavrin, Sarah Rivett, Teresa Toulouse.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I. COMPARISONS -- Chapter 1. Religions on the Move -- Chapter 2. Baroque New Worlds -- Chapter 3. Martín de Murúa, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, and the Contested Uses of Saintly Models in Writing Colonial American History -- PART II. CROSSINGS -- Chapter 4. Transatlantic Passages -- Chapter 5. Dying for Christ -- PART III. MISSIONS -- Chapter 6. Believing in Piety -- Chapter 7. Return as a Religious Mission -- Chapter 8. Jesuit Missionary Work in the Imperial Frontier -- PART IV. LEGACIES -- Chapter 9. "Reader . . . Behold One Raised by God" -- Chapter 10. Between Cicero and Augustine -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments