Name/Title
Religion in Latin America a Documentary History Edited with Introductions, Commentary, and Select Translations by Lee M. Penyak, Walter J. PetryDescription
Part I.Indigenous Religions --The Place Where One Becomes Deified /Codex Matritensis, 1562/75 --Our Grandfathers, Our Grandmothers /Codex Matritensis, 1562/75 --Popul Vuh /Indigenous authors, 1550s --Maya Religiosity /Diego de Landa, 1566 --Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc /Diego Duran, 1580 --Maya Afterlife /Diego de Landa, 1566 --Ilya-Tiqsi Viracocha Pachayacachiq /Bernabe Cobo, 1653 --Part II.Encounter, Conquest, Empire --Imperialism Triumphant /Christopher Columbus, 1492 --Labor Policy in Hispaniola /Isabela la Cat{acute}olica, 1503 --Bartolome de Las Casas /Historia, mid 16th century --Human Rights in 1511 /Bartolome de Las Casas, mid 16th century --Las Casas on Empire /Brev{acute}isima Relaci{acute}on, 1542 --The Requerimiento /Palacio Rubios, 1513 --Initiating International law /Francisco Vitoria, 1530/40s --Indians are Truly Men /Paul III, 1537 --Part III."Conversion" --"Converting" the Conquered /Codex Ram{acute}irez, 1530s --Palm Sunday, Tabasco, 1519 /Bernal D{acute}iaz del Castillo, 1560s --Se{tilde}nor Moctezuma Discusses Religion with Se{tilde}nor Malinche /Bernal D{acute}iaz del Castillo, 1560s --Our Ancestors Did Not Speak in this Manner /Bernardino de Sahag{acute}un, 1560s --Tupi Innocence? /Vaz de Caminha, 1500 --Jesuits and Tupi /Jose de Anchieta, circa 1560 --Rigorous Evangelization of Adult Amerindians /Antonio Pires, 1558 --Brazilian Slavers and Jesuit Missionaries /Sim{acute}on Maceta and Justo Mansilla, 1629 --Antonio Vieira Promotes Human Rights /Antonio Vieira, 1653 --Competing Missionary Perspectives /Toribio de Motolin{acute}ia, 1550s and Francisco Ortiz, 1524 --The Franciscan Method /Andres de Moguer, 1554 --Motolon{acute}ia Attacks Las Casas /"Letter to Charles V," 1555 --Mission Zeal Declines /Alonso de Mont{acute}ufar, mid-16th century, Ger{acute}onimo de Mendieta, 1596 --Serpentine Prudence /Bernardino de Sahag{acute}un, 1560s --The Unchanging Spanish Mission, 1600-1800 /Alexander von Humboldt, 1804 --Tomas de Santa Mar{acute}ia or Thomas Gage? /Tomas Gage, 1649 --Zapotec Codices /Gonzalo de Balsalobre, 1654 --State and Church /Philip II, 1574 --Rationalizing Imperialism /Philip II, 1573 --Franciscans in the Far-Flung Frontier /Bernardino de Siena, 1630s --A German Jesuit Among the "Savage" Pima /Joseph Och, 1767 --Franciscans in California /Francisco Palou and Jun{acute}ipero Serra, 1775 --Good and Bad Years in the Monterey Mission /Jun{acute}ipero Serra, 1783 --Amerindian Survival in New Spain's Texas /Manuel de Salcedo, 1808 --The Late Missions in Mexico's California /Frederick William Beechy, 1826 --Part IV.Ecclesiastical Realities --A Letter from Potos{acute}i /Francisco de la Calzada, 1577 --Convents in the Maturing Colonies /Antonio Vazquez de Espinosa, circa 1620 --A "Letter" from Peru /Guaman Poma de Ayala, circa 1600 --Jesuit Labor Practices in Quito /Garc{acute}ia Zangolqu{acute}i, Domingo Human , Felipe Juali Zidemon, et. al., 1623 --Christian and "Pagan" Amerindians Confront Corrupt Clergy /Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa, 1748 --Part V.Roman Catholicism Triumphant? --Virgin of Guadalupe /Lasso de la Vega, 1649 --Artisans! Be Ready for Corpus Christi! /Municipality of Sao Salvador, 1673 --A White Holy Woman in Seventeenth-Century Lima /Gonzalo de la Maza, 1617 --A Black Holy Woman in Seventeenth-Century Lima /Diego de C{acute}ordova Salinas, 1651 --A Unique Holy Woman from Seventeenth-Century New Spain /Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, 1691 --Part VI.Education --Renovation or Tradition in the Late Colony? /Manuel Guirior, 1770s --Educating the Guaran{acute}i /Felix de Azara, 1781 --Jesuits Must Leave the Country... Where Is the Treasure? /Joseph Och, 1767 --Part VII.The Church and Slavery --Restoring the Well-Being of the Blacks /Alonso de Sandoval, 1627/47 --A Brotherhood of Black Creole Slaves /Antonio Vieira, 1650s --Evangelizing Enslaved Africans in Bah{acute}ia /Sebastiao Monteiro DaVide, 1707 --Slaves and Christian Marriage /Jorge Benci, 1700 --Sao Salvador de Bah{acute}ia, Shame of Catholic Brazil /Amedee Frezier, 1717 --Slavery and the Political Economy of Portuguese Brazil /Governor of Bah{acute}ia, 1794 --Part VIII.The Holy Office of the Inquisition --The Holy Office and the "New Christians" /Luis de Carvajal, 1595 --Harder, Harder on these Lutheran Heretics! Enemies of God! /Miles Philips, circa 1580 --The Power and Reach of the Holy Office /Louis Rame, 1736, and Francois Raymond Joseph de Pons, circa 1800 --An Appearance Before the Holy Office in the Late Colony /William Bennett Stevenson, 1806, 1812 --Part IX.Church and State in the new America --Excommunication by a Former Friend /Manuel Abad y Queipo, 1810 --The Liberator and Religion /Sim{acute}on Bol{acute}ivar, 1823, 1826 --Church and State in the Sovereign Republics of Spanish America /Various, 1824-1925 --Part X.Catholicism in the New America --A Shrewd Young Briton Comments on Religion in Brazil, 1810s /Henry Koster, 1810s --A Shrewd British Gentleman Comments on the Church in Brazil, 1820s /Robert Walsh, 1820s --Son mui buenos catolicos pero mui malos cristianos? /Henry George Ward, 1827 --The U.S. Establishment in Amerindian Guatemala /John Lloyd Stephens, 1841 --A Scots Woman from Boston in a Mexico City Convent /Fanny Calder{acute}on de la Barca, 1843 --Church, State, and Social Welfare in Late Colonial Cuba /Richard Henry Dana, 1859 --Part XI.Enter Protestantism --Mission : Reconnaissance /John C. Brigham, 1825 --^^Distributing the Bible /James Thomson, 1821 --A Presbyterian Botanist in the Wilds of Colombia /Isaac F. Holton, 1848-52 --Protestant Missionaries in Nineteenth-Century Catholic Brazil /James Fletcher and D.P. Kidder, 1850s/60s --No Protestant Temples Here /Jose Sebastian, Archbishop of Lima, 1864 --No Protestants in My Parishioners' Homes /Anthony Graybill, 1890 --The Eternal Western Missionary Experience /D.B. Grubb, 1900 --Hunger for the Scriptures /Hugh C. Tucker, 1900 --Woman's Work in Latin Lands /Carrie Carnahan, 1913 --Part XII.Amerindian- and Afro-Christian Culture --Celebrating the Holy Cross in Yucatan /Alfonso Villa Rojas, 1930 --On the "Indian" in Guatemala /Erna Fergusson, 1937 --The Mystical Chimaltenangos /Charles Wagley, 1930s --Male and Female Concepts of Christ in Bah{acute}ia /Marvin Harris, 1951 --The Pragmatic Tepotztecans /Oscar Lewis, 1951 --Child of the Dark /Carolina Maria de Jesus, 1958 --Part XIII.Protestants in the Twentieth Century --Presbyterians in Guatemala /96th Annual Report... Foreign Missions... Presbyterian Church USA, 1933 --Mexican Evangelicals, 1935 /Kenneth G. Grubb and G. Baez Camargo, 1935 --Religious Liberty in Latin America? /John Mackay, 1944 --A Protest for the Peruvian Senate /Paul Pinto, Pedro Ruiz Brazo, Francisco Pastor, et. al., 1943 --Protestantism : Positive or Negative for Latin America? /Luis Alberto Sanchez and Manuel Carlos Ferraz, 1944 --A Radical Brazilian Pentecostal /Manoel de Melo, 1960s --Participation is Everything /Manoel de Melo, 1971 --Pietism in Brazil /Rubem Alves and Richard Shaull, 1956 --Mexican Presbyterians /William L. Wonderly and Jorge Lara-Braud, 1967 --Who Converts to Pentecostalism? /Emilio Willems, 1967 --Mormon Missionaries and Scholars in Mexico /Gary and Gordon Shepherd, 1998 --Protestant Pastors and Marxist-Leninism in Cuba /Joaqu{acute}in Andrade, 1971 --Part XIV.The Troubled Twentieth Century --Pancho Villa /Doroteo Arango, 1914 --In Our [Land] There Has Never Been a Real Religious Anxiety /Ricardo Rojas, 1928 --Anti-Kommunism /Juan Jose Arevalo, 1959 --Portrait of a Troubled Church /Leslie Dewart, 1963 --The Catholic Who Is Not a Revolutionary Is Living in Mortal Sin /Camilo Torres, 1965 --In the Favelas of the Brazil Northeast /Paul Gallet, 1969 --A Devout Christian Takes Up Arms /Nestor Paz, 1970 --Evangelization : Obstacles and Rays of Hope /Alfredo Kunz, 1979 --The Churches and Peasant Leagues / r Francisco Juliao, 1968 --Becoming Christian After Catholic Education /Marcio Moreira Alves, 1973 --Part XV.Proto-Liberation Theology --It is Good for the Church to Go Through Prison /Frei Betto, 1971 --A Martyr for the Mato Grosso /Pedro Casald liga, 1977 --We Have Had No Democracy For 500 Years /Paulo Evaristo Cardinal Arns, 1986 --Dom Helder Camara /Helder Pessoa Camara, 1968 --Gustavo Gutierrez /Gustavo Gutierrez, 1971 --Part XVI.In Nicaragua --The Gospel in Solentiname /Ernesto Cardenal, 1960s, 1977 --Misa Campesina Nicaraguense /Carlos Mej{acute}ia Godoy, 1975 --Sandinistas and Christianity I /National Literacy Crusade, 1980; Preamble, Constitution, 1986 --Sandinistas and Christianity II /National Directorate of the FSLN, 1980 --Disappointing a Fragile Flock /Mar{acute}ia L{acute}opez Vigil, 1983 --Letter to My Friends /Fernando Cardenal, 1984 --Homily on Two Christian Revolutionary Martyrs of Nicaragua /Jose Llaguno Far{acute}ias, 1988 --The Easter Pastoral /Bishops of Nicaragua, 1986 --Part XVII.Later Liberation Theology --A Theology of Women's Ordination /Leonardo Boff, 1977 --More Martyrs for El Salvador /Jon Sobrino, 1989 --Don Samuel Ruiz Guzman /Interview in San Crist{acute}obal de Las Casas, Chiapas, 1993 --Until I Was 40 Years Old I Never Spoke of Liberation Theology /Gustavo Gutierrez, 1994 --The Real Core of Liberation Theology /Jon Sobrino, 1982 --Part XVIII.Critiques of Liberation Theology --A View from the Hierarchy /Alfonso Cardinal L{acute}opez Trujillo, 1985 --A View from the Academy /David Stoll, 1990 --A View from an Activist /Phillip Berryman, 1996 --Part XIX.Diverse Responses to and by the Church --Fidel on the Church /Fidel Castro, 1980 --Chico Mendes /Francisco Alves Mendes Filho, 1988 --Guadalupe Sides with the Oppressed /Andres G. Guerrero, 1987 --Hands off Darien! /R{acute}omulo Emiliani, 1999 --Fidel Welcomes John Paul /Fidel Castro, 1998 --Part XX.Latino Jews, Afro-Latinos, and Amerindians --Argentinian Jews Flourish Despite Adversity /Daniel J. Elazar, 1987 --Future Prospects for the Argentinian Jewish Community /Steve Israel, 2005 --Jewish Life in Contemporary Mexico /Shep Lenchek, 2000 --A Jewish Remnant in Central America /Corrie MacLaggan, 2003 --Black Religion in Cuba /Esteban Montejo, 1966 --A Night of Umbanda /Lindsay Hale, 1991 --Catholic Mass and Candomble in Bah{acute}ia /Kathleen de Azevedo, 1997 --Xango and the Holy Ghost /Esther Iverem, 2001 --Santer{acute}ia /Miguel A. De La Torre, 2004 --Affirming Afro-Latin American Identity /Emigdio Cuesta Pino and Melania Cueto Villaman, 2001 --A Resurgence of Maya Religion /Marcelino Palax, 1994 --Part XXI.Protestantism into the Twenty-First Century --A Sin of Omission by Another Christian Church /Lisandro Orlov, 1998 --A Baptist Pastor Critiques His Evangelical Churches /V{acute}ictor Rey, 2000 --A Presbyterian in Cuba /Raimundo Garc{acute}ia Franco, 2004 --A Methodist Aymara in Bolivia /Eugenio Poma, 2004 --Pentecostalism Comes of Age in Latin America /Hubert von Beek, Gabriel O. Vaccaro, Bernardo L. Campos M., et. al, 1994, 2001 --A Bolivian Pentecostal in the US Examines His Church in Latin America /Pedro C. Moreno, 1997 --Roundtable on the Future of Pentecostalism /Jose Orozco, 2004 --A Humanist Nightmare? /Constantino Urcuyo, 2005 --Brazilian Missionaries and the 10/40 Window /Oswaldo Prado, 2005 --Part XXII.Roman Catholicism into the Twenty-First Century --Testimony of Juan Gonzalez ("Jany"), Young Puerto Rican Preacher /Juan A. Gonzalez Rivera 2002, 2005 --Per{acute}on and the Church /Juan Domingo Per{acute}on, 1954 --The Church is Going to Be Pilloried for This /Emilio F. Mignone, 1986 --Mea Culpa Lite /Washington Uranga, 1996 --The Mexican Bishops and the EZLN /Bishops of Mexico, 2001 --San Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin /John Paul II, 2002 --First Among Equals Among the Bishops /Francisco Javier Cardinal Errazurriz Ossa, 2003.
xxiv, 423 p. :map ;23 cm.Book Details
Date Published
circa 2006Publication Subjects
Religion.--fast--(OCoLC)fst01093763Call No.
BL2540 .R45 2006ISBN
1570756791 (pbk.), 9781570756795 (pbk.)LCCN
2006010823Notes
Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.