Encounters of the Spirit: Native Americans and European Colonial Religion

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ISBN: 9780253349125
Dewey: 261.297
LCC Number: BR115.C8
Author: Richard W Pointer
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Pages: 289
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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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Weight 1.28 lbs
Dimensions 9.54 × 6.53 × 0.94 in
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