Religion and society in Latin America: interpretive essays from conquest to present

Hundred years of evangelizing Latin America / Lee M. Penyak and Walter J. Petry -- The right to appropriate, the duty to evangelize : Spain and the conquest of the new world / Lee M. Penyak and Walter J. Petry -- Indigenous religions : reading friars' accounts / John F. Schwaller -- Conversion...

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Contributors: Penyak, Lee M. (Editor) ; Petry, Walter J. (Other)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Maryknoll, N.Y Orbis Books c2009
In:Year: 2009
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Latin America / Christianity / History
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Christianity and culture (Latin America)
B Latin America Religious life and customs
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Summary:Hundred years of evangelizing Latin America / Lee M. Penyak and Walter J. Petry -- The right to appropriate, the duty to evangelize : Spain and the conquest of the new world / Lee M. Penyak and Walter J. Petry -- Indigenous religions : reading friars' accounts / John F. Schwaller -- Conversion and the spiritual conquest / David Tavárez and John F. Chuchiak -- Enslaved Africans and Christianity / Nicole von Germeten and Javier Villa-Flores -- Priests and nuns in colonial Ibero-America / Karen Melvin -- The holy office of the inquisition and women / Jacqueline Holler -- Church-sponsored education, c. 1800- c. 1930 / Grover Antonio Espinoza -- Anti-clericalism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Jeffrey Klaiber -- Not to be called Cristian : Protestant perceptions of Catholicism in nineteenth-century Latin America / Monica I. Orozco -- Like a mighty rushing wind : the growth of Protestantism in contemporary Latin America / Virginia Garrard-Burnett -- Charismatic competitors : Protestant Pentecostals and Catholic Charismatics in Latin America's new religious marketplace / R. Andrew Chesnut -- Umbanda / Lindsay Hale -- The Catholic Church and social revolutionaries / Jennifer S. Hughes -- A preferential and evangelizing option for the poor : the Catholic Church from Medellín to Aparecida / Robert Pelton
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:1570758506