Spiritual Encounters Interactions Between Christianity and Native Religions in Colonial America

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Spreading the Word: missionaries, conversion and circulation in the northeast David Murray 2. The kindness of the blessed Virgin`: faith,succour, and the cult of Mary among Christian Hurons and Iroquois in seventeenth-century New France William B. Hart 3. `Here is another marvel`: Marian miracle narratives in a Nahuatl manuscript Louise M. Burkhart 4. Cultural boundaries between adaptation and defiance:the mission communities of northwestern New Spain Cynthia Radding 5. `Telling lives`: confessional autobiography and the reconstruction of the Nahua self J. Jorge Klor de Alva 6. Contesting the power to heal: angels, demons and plants in colonial Mexico Osvaldo F. Pardo 7. Andean curanderos and their repressers:the persecution of native healing in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Peru Nicholas Griffiths 8. El callejon de la soledad: vectors of cultural hybridity in seventeenth-century Lima Alejandra B. Osoiio 9. Repression and cultural change:the `Extirpation of Idolatry` in colonial Peru Iris Gareis 10 `Chicha in the chalice`: spiritual conflict in Spanish American mission culture Lance Grahn