Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas /

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

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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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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 23 illus.
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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

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