Religion and society in Latin America
Subtitle: interpretive essays from the conquest to the present
By: by Lee M. Penyak & Walter J. Petry, editors.
Contributors: Penyak, Lee M.; Petry, Walter J.
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Maryknoll, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781570758508
Subjects: Christianity and culture -- Latin America; Latin America -- Church history; Latin America -- Religion; Latin America -- Religious life and customs
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Hundred years of evangelizing Latin America / Lee M. Penyak and Walter J. Petry; title: The right to appropriate, the duty to evangelize : Spain and the conquest of the new world / Lee M. Penyak and Walter J. Petry; title: Indigenous religions : reading friars' accounts / John F. Schwaller; title: Conversion and the spiritual conquest / David Tavárez and John F. Chuchiak; title: Enslaved Africans and Christianity / Nicole von Germeten and Javier Villa-Flores; title: Priests and nuns in colonial Ibero-America / Karen Melvin; title: The holy office of the inquisition and women / Jacqueline Holler; title: Church-sponsored education, c. 1800- c. 1930 / Grover Antonio Espinoza; title: Anti-clericalism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Jeffrey Klaiber; title: Not to be called Cristian : Protestant perceptions of Catholicism in nineteenth-century Latin America / Monica I. Orozco; title: Like a mighty rushing wind : the growth of Protestantism in contemporary Latin America / Virginia Garrard-Burnett; title: Charismatic competitors : Protestant Pentecostals and Catholic Charismatics in Latin America's new religious marketplace / R. Andrew Chesnut; title: Umbanda / Lindsay Hale; title: The Catholic Church and social revolutionaries / Jennifer S. Hughes; title: A preferential and evangelizing option for the poor : the Catholic Church from Medellín to Aparecida / Robert Pelton.