Christianity in Latin America /

Christianity in Latin America /

Winner of the 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award Christianity in Latin America provides a complete overview of more than 500 years of the history of Christianity in the 'New World'. This book specifically focuses on conquest, exploitation of slave- and forced labor, mission, the...

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Main Author: Prien, Hans-J̈urgen.

Other Authors: Buckwalter, Stephen E.

Format: eBook

Language: English
German

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill. c2013.

Edition: Rev. and expanded ed.

Series: Religion in the Americas 13.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2013, ISBN: 9789004248748.

Subjects:

Catholic Church > Latin America > History.
Christianity > Latin America > History.
RELIGION / Christianity / History.
Latin America > Church history.

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Call Number: BR600 .P75 2013

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • The Colonial Period: The Situation at the Beginning
  • Spanish Overseas Expansion: Discoveries, Conquests, and Colonization
  • The Development of the Colonial and Missionary Church in Spanish America
  • Colonial Ehtics
  • Mission Work and the Development of Church Structures in Brazil from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries
  • The Development of the Church after Trent
  • The Inquisition and the "Extirpation of Idolatry": Defending the Iberian Colonization and Commerce Monopoly and the Catholic Confessional Monopoly against the Protestant Seaborne Powers and the Persistence of Traditional Indigenous Religions
  • Popular Religiosity, Popular Catholicism, and Popular Piety
  • The Century of the Enlightenment
  • The Christian Churches of Latin America in the Face of National Movements and the Struggle by Conservatives and Liberals for a New Political Order in the Nineteenth Century
  • The Closing Phase of the Confessional Age: The Catholic Church's Struggle to Renew Its Social Influence and Resist Protestantism (From the Last Third of the Nineteenth Century Until 1958)
  • Christianity in the Age of Ecumenism and the Crisis in the Development of Nation-States
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects.