The spiritual conversion of the Americas
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The spiritual conversion of the Americas
University Press of Florida, 2004
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The conversion efforts of European Christian missionaries, both Catholic and Protestant, in the Americas during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries form a single, continuous thread. From Columbus to the Puritans and beyond, Europeans arriving in the Americas virtually always included in the justification of their colonizing efforts the desire to convert the native peoples to Christianity, as their ancestors had been converted centuries earlier. These essays not only explain how vital these conversion efforts were to European expansion but also explore the effects of such conversion work on the Protestant Reformation that was raging in Europe.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Seeking Spiritual Gold in the New World, by James Muldoon
- 1. Making the Land Holy: The Mission Frontier in Early Medieval Europe and Colonial Mexico, by Daniel T. Reff
- 2. Conversion Practices on the New Mexico Frontier, by Barbara De Marco
- 3. Two Kinds of Conversion ("Medieval" and "Modern") among the Hurons of New France, by Peter Goddard
- 4. Conversion in Theory and Practice: John Eliot's Mission to the Indians, by Annie Parker
- 5. Lutherans Meet the Indians: A Seventeenth-Century Conversion Debate, by Dennis C. Landis
- 6. Dutch Calvinism and Native Americans: A Comparative Study of the Motivations for Protestant Conversion Among the Tupis in Northeastern Brazil (1630-1654) and the Mohawks in Central New York (1690-1710), by Mark Meuwese
- 7. "None of these wandering nations has ever been reduced to the Faith": Missions and Mobility on the Spanish American Frontier, by Amy Turner Bushnell
- 8. Confessing the Indians: Guilt Discourse and Acculturation in Early Spanish America, by Jaime Valenzuela Marquez
- 9. Conversion in Portuguese America, by Isabel dos Guimaraes Sa
- 10. Making Papists of Puritans: Accounting for New English Conversions in New France, by Evan Haefeli
- 11. Gold for Glasse: The Trope of Trade in English Missionary Writings, by Laura M. Stevens
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