Encounters of the Spirit: Native Americans and European Colonial Religion

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Historians have long been aware that the encounter with Europeansaffected all aspects of Native American life. But were Indians the only ones changedby these cross-cultural meetings? Might the newcomers' ways, including theirreligious beliefs and practices, have also been altered amid their myriad contactswith native peoples? In Encounters of the Spirit, Richard W. Pointer takes up theseintriguing questions in an innovative study of the religious encounter betweenIndians and Euro-Americans in early America. Exploring a series of episodes acrossthe three centuries of the colonial era and stretching from New Spain to New Franceand the English settlements, he finds that the flow of cultural influence was moreoften reciprocal than unidirectional.

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