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• ISBN: 080327081X
• ISBN: 9780803270817
• Physical Description: xi, 304 pages ; 22 cm.
• Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1999.

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Spreading the Word : missionaries, conversion and circulation in the northeast / David Murray -- "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 -- "Here is another marvel" : Marian miracle narratives in a Nahuatl manuscript / Louise M. Burkhart -- Cultural boundaries between adaptation and defiance : the mission communities of northwestern New Spain / Cynthia Radding -- "Telling lives" : confessional autobiography and the reconstruction of the Nahua self / J. Jorge Klor de Alva -- Contesting the power to heal : angels, demons and plants in colonial Mexico / Osvaldo F. Pardo -- Andean curanderos and their repressors : the persecution of native healing in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth century Peru / Nicholas Griffiths -- El callejón de la soledad : vectors of cultural hybridity in seventeenth-century Lima / Alejandra B. Osorio -- Repression and cultural change : the 'Extirpation of Idolatry' in colonial Peru / Iris Gareis -- "Chicha in the chalice" : spiritual conflict in Spanish American mission culture / Lance Grahn -- Epilogue : the middle ground / Fernando Cervantes.

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Indians > Religion.
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