Christianity in Latin America / by Hans-Jurgen Prien; translation by Stephen Buckwalter; introduction, and chapters 1 and 2 translated by Brian McNeil.
Winner of the 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award Christianity in Latin America provides a complete overview of more than 500 years of the history of Christianity in the ‘New World’. This book specifically focuses on conquest, exploitation of slave- and forced labor, mission, the formation...
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Rev. and exp. ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Religion in the Americas
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (702 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- The Colonial Period: The Situation at the Beginning
- Spanish Overseas Expansion: Discoveries, Conquests, and Colonization
- The Development of the Colonial and Missionary Church in Spanish America
- Colonial Ehtics
- Mission Work and the Development of Church Structures in Brazil from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries
- The Development of the Church after Trent
- The Inquisition and the “Extirpation of Idolatry”: Defending the Iberian Colonization and Commerce Monopoly and the Catholic Confessional Monopoly against the Protestant Seaborne Powers and the Persistence of Traditional Indigenous Religions
- Popular Religiosity, Popular Catholicism, and Popular Piety
- The Century of the Enlightenment
- The Christian Churches of Latin America in the Face of National Movements and the Struggle by Conservatives and Liberals for a New Political Order in the Nineteenth Century
- The Closing Phase of the Confessional Age: The Catholic Church’s Struggle to Renew Its Social Influence and Resist Protestantism (From the Last Third of the Nineteenth Century Until 1958)
- Christianity in the Age of Ecumenism and the Crisis in the Development of Nation-States
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects.