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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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