Spiritual encounters : interactions between Christianity and native religions in colonial America /

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Imprint:Birmingham : University of Birmingham Press, ©1999.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 304 pages, 1 facsimile)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11262273
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Other authors / contributors:Griffiths, Nicholas, 1962-
Cervantes, Fernando, 1958-
ISBN:9780567250629
0567250628
1902459016
9781902459011
9786613195500
6613195502
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
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Summary:Encounters between religions and the resulting questions pertaining to belief and faith are among the most intriguing subjects with which scholars grapple. How do people adjust, accommodate, resist, reinterpret and harmonize different systems of belief? Do religious conversions often mask more worldly concerns such as political power, economic well being, and the ability to control one''s destiny? Specifically adopting a cross-hemispheric approach, this volume draws on experiences of religious change principally in hispanophone America, but also in anglophone and francophone America, i.
Other form:Print version: Spiritual encounters. Birmingham : University of Birmingham Press, ©1999 1902459016