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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rivett, Sarah (Editor ), Kirk, Stephanie L. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2014.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Early modern Americas.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.