| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 273 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : seeking spiritual gold in the Americas / James Muldoon -- Making the land holy : the mission frontier in early medieval Europe and colonial Mexico / Daniel T. Reff -- Conversion practices on the new Mexico frontier / Barbara de Marco -- Two kinds of conversion ("medieval" and "modern") among the Hurons of New France / Peter Goddard -- Conversion in theory and practice : John Eliot's mission to the Indians / Annie Parker -- Lutherans meet the Indians : a seventeenth-century conversion debate / Dennis C. Landis -- Dutch Calvinism and Native Americans : a comparative study of the motivations for Protestant conversion among the Tupís in northeastern Brazil (1630-1654) and the Mohawks in central New York (1690-1710) / Mark Meuwese -- "None of these wandering nations has ever been reduced to the faith" : missions and mobility on the Spanish-American frontier / Amy Turner Bushnell -- Confessing the Indians : guilt discourse and acculturation in early Spanish America / Jaime Valenzuela Márquez -- Conversion in Portuguese America / Isabel dos Guimarães Sá -- Making papists of Puritans : accounting for new English conversions in New France / Evan Haefeli -- Gold for glasse : the trope of trade in English missionary writings / Laura M. Stevens |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Catholic Church -- Missions -- America -- History
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| SUBJECT |
Catholic Church fast |
| Subject |
RELIGION -- Christian Ministry -- Missions.
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Missions
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Mission
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Katholische Kirche.
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| SUBJECT |
America -- Church history
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| Subject |
America
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Indianer.
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| Genre/Form |
Church history
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Muldoon, James, 1935-
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| ISBN |
9780813035871 |
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0813035872 |
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