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Christianity in Latin America /

"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 of the Catholic Church after the council of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Prien, Hans-Jürgen
Otros Autores: Buckwalter, Stephen E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2013.
Edición:Rev. and expanded ed.
Colección:Religion in the Americas series ; v. 13.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 ethics
  • 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.