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...Oliver La Farge Maya Paganism and Christianity. A History of the Fusion of Two Religions . By Thompson Donald E. . New Orleans , 1954 . Tulane University . Middle American Research Insitute Publication, 19 . Pp. 36 . Copyright 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 ...

...Robert Curley New Faces of God in Latin America: Emerging Forms of Vernacular Christianity . By Virginia Garrard . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2020 . Table. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 289 pp. Cloth, $110.00 . Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Virginia...

...Susan M. Deeds Indigenous Responses to Western Christianity . Edited by Kaplan Stephen . New York : New York University Press , 1995 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . x , 183 pp. Cloth. $40.00 . Copyright 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Efforts to Christianize the non...

...Wayne M. Clegern Johnson suggests that “things fail in Belize” because of a cultural clash or failure of communication between Euro-Christian and Afro-pagan ideologies which had become a fixed pattern by 1838 (pp. xv, xvi). Occasionally, he attempts to develop this thesis, particularly on pages...

...Jennifer Adair [email protected] Liberationist Christianity in Argentina (1930–1983): Faith and Revolution . By Pablo Bradbury . Monografías . Woodbridge, UK : Tamesis , 2023 . Photographs. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xi, 255 pp. Cloth, $115.00...

... the principles of the revolution. Although the Christian idioms presented by the prosecution support recent scholarly arguments regarding deist tendencies within revolutionary ideologies, this article points out that the government's emphasis on its spiritual conviction sought to bolster the claim...

...Frank “Trey” Proctor, III Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570–1640 . By Bennett Herman L. . Blacks in the Diaspora . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 2003 . Maps. Table. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . x , 275...

...Rick Warner Plagues, Priests, and Demons: Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New . By Reff Daniel T. . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2005 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiii , 290 pp. Cloth...

... in their objective or that torture and disappearance as a political strategy constitute a “grotesque breach of ... ethics by any rendering” (pp. ix-x). This failure to give the devil his ethical due is tied to another blind spot: “If the Enemy [Marxist guerrillas] ... violated the values of ‘Western and Christian...

...Gad Heuman God Almighty Make Me Free: Christianity in Preemancipation Jamaica . By Gordon Shirley C. . Blacks in the Diaspora . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1996 . Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiii, 159 pp. Cloth, $39.95 . Copyright 1998 by Duke University...

...Rebecca Dufendach The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas . By Jennifer Scheper Hughes . North American Religions . New York : New York University Press , 2021 . Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xviii, 245 pp. Cloth...

..., Christian thinking about what is entailed in conversion to Christianity has followed divergent patterns. On the one hand, it was thought, conversion occurs according to an inner understanding within the individual, in which the missionary is merely a helper. Thus, Paul, in his address to the Athenians...

...David L. Larson Christianity and Revolution, the Lesson of Cuba . By Dewart Leslie . New York , 1963 . Herder and Herder . Notes. Appendix. Index . Pp. 320 . $5.50 . Copyright 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 This is a teleological discussion of the contemporary...

...Galen Brokaw Gods of the Andes: An Early Jesuit Account of Inca Religion and Andean Christianity . By Hyland Sabine . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2011 . Map. Appendix. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . xii , 132 pp. Paper , $24.95 . Copyright...

...Chloe Ireton Abstract Hundreds of Castilian free black men and women obtained royal travel licenses to cross the Atlantic in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries as black Old Christians. They settled across the Spanish Indies and developed trades as artisans, traders, sailors, healers...

...Edward J. Williams The debate concerning the vices and virtues of Christian-Marxist cooperation is not new, of course, but the Chilean context really did differ in that it dealt with a real situation in spades. In that sense, the book has a certain historical importance beyond the formulation...

...W. L. Spalding, Jr. The Christian Century in Japan, 1549-1650 . By Boxer C. R. . ( Berkeley : University of California Press , 1951 . Pp. xv , 397 , 139 . Plates, maps, index . $7.50 .) Copyright 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 ...

...Virginia Garrard Religious Transformation in Maya Guatemala: Cultural Collapse and Christian Pentecostal Revitalization . Edited by John P. Hawkins . Santa Fe : School for Advanced Research Press ; Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2021 . Photographs. Plates. Maps...

...Robert H. Dix The Christian Democratic Party in Chile. A Study of Political Organization and Activity with Primary Emphasis on the Local Level . By Wayland-Smith Giles . Cuernavaca, México , 1969 . Centro Intercultural de Documentación . Sondeos, 39 . Figures. Tables. Graphs...

..., was incompletely feudalized because Christian settlers in newly reconquered regions secured considerable personal freedom. The new argument is that personal freedom quickly declined as the frontier receded and the settlers’ descendants slipped into dependent roles, thus giving many parts of Spain a feudal...