Name/Title
Religion and society in Latin America :interpretive essays from conquest to present /Lee M. Penyak and Walter J. Petry, editors.Description
Five hundred years of evangelizing Latin America / Lee M. Penyak and Walter J. Petry -- The right to appropriate, the duty to evangelize : Spain and the conquest of the new world / Lee M. Penyak and Walter J. Petry -- Friars' accounts of the native peoples of the Americas / John F. Schwaller -- Conversion and the spiritual conquest / David Tav{acute}arez and John F. Chuchiak -- Afro-Latin Americans and Christianity / Nicole von Germeten and Javier Villa-Flores -- Priests and nuns in colonial Ibero-America / Karen Melvin -- The holy office of the inquisition and women / Jacqueline Holler -- Church-sponsored education in Latin America, c. 1800-c. 1930 / Grover Antonio Espinoza -- Anticlericalism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Jeffrey Klaiber -- "Not to be called Christian" : Protestant perceptions of Catholicism in nineteenth-century Latin America / Monica I. Orozco -- "Like a mighty rushing wind" : the growth of Protestantism in contemporary Latin America / Virginia Garrard-Burnett -- Charismatic competitors : Protestant Pentecostals and Catholic Charismatics in Latin America's new religious marketplace / R. Andrew Chesnut -- Umbanda / Lindsay Hale -- The Catholic Church and social revolutionaries / Jennifer S. Hughes -- "A preferential and evangelizing option for the poor" : the Catholic Church from Medell{acute}in to Aparecida / Robert S. Pelton.
xxii, 298 p. :ills., maps ;23 cm.Book Details
Date Published
circa 2009Publication Subjects
Christianity and culture--Latin America.Call No.
BR600 .R385 2009ISBN
9781570758508 (pbk.), 1570758506 (pbk.)LCCN
2009008809Notes
Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.