Spiritual Encounters
1st Edition
Published on 20. January 1999
318 pages
978-0-567-25062-9 (ISBN)
Description
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, in order to transcend cultural frontiers, illuminate the circumstances and conditions which determined the form that spiritual encounters took across the hemisphere, and encourage a comparative approach.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-0-567-25062-9 (9780567250629)
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Spiritual Encounters
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Spreading the Word: missionaries, conversion and circulation in the northeast
- 2 'The kindness of the blessed Virgin': faith, succour, and the cult of Mary among Christian Hurons and Iroquois in seventeenth-century New France
- 3 'Here is another marvel': Marian miracle narratives in a Nahuatl manuscript
- 4 Cultural boundaries between adaptation and defiance: the mission communities of northwestern New Spain
- 5 'Telling lives': confessional autobiography and the reconstruction of the Nahua self
- 6 Contesting the power to heal: angels, demons and plants in colonial Mexico
- 7 Andean curanderos and their repressers: the persecution of native healing in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Peru
- 8 El callejón de la soledad: vectors of cultural hybridity in seventeenth-century Lima
- 9 Repression and cultural change: the 'Extirpation of Idolatry' in colonial Peru
- 10 'Chicha in the chalice': spiritual conflict in Spanish American mission culture
- Epilogue: the middle ground
- Index
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