Encounters of the Spirit : Native Americans and European Colonial Religion

Pointer, Richard W.

ISBN 10: 0253349125 / ISBN 13: 9780253349125

Editore: Indiana University Press, 2007

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• Titolo: Encounters of the Spirit : Native Americans and European Colonial Religion
• Editore: Indiana University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0253349125
• ISBN 13: 9780253349125
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: As New

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Historians have long been aware that the encounter with Europeans affected all aspects of Native American life. But were Indians the only ones changed by these cross-cultural meetings? Might the newcomers' ways, including their religious beliefs and practices, have also been altered amid their myriad contacts with native peoples? In Encounters of the Spirit, Richard W. Pointer takes up these intriguing questions in an innovative study of the religious encounter between Indians and Euro-Americans in early America. Exploring a series of episodes across the three centuries of the colonial era and stretching from New Spain to New France and the English settlements, he finds that the flow of cultural influence was more often reciprocal than unidirectional.

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Richard W. Pointer is Professor of History and Fletcher Jones Chair in Social Science at Westmont College. He is author of Protestant Pluralism and the New York Experience: A Study of Eighteenth-Century Religious Diversity (IUP, 1988).

Richard W. Pointer is Professor of History and Fletcher Jones Chair in Social Science at Westmont College. He is author of Protestant Pluralism and the New York Experience: A Study of Eighteenth-Century Religious Diversity (IUP, 1988).